- Bill Moyers speech at Boston University on October 29, 2010, as a part of the Howard Zinn Lecture Series. I was honored when you asked me to join in celebrating.
- Bill Moyers' Departure From TV Is a Huge Loss for Independent Journalism. Moyers played a key role in. Bill Moyers, Moyers on.
- Veteran journalist Bill Moyers returns to PBS with Bill Moyers Journal, a weekly program of interviews and news analysis on a wide range of subjects, including.
- Migrant farmworkers are among the most marginalized people in the country. Will they be helped by the proposed immigration bill?
- CBS EXAMINES IMMIGRATION ISSUES By JOHN CORRY. The program doesn't identify him.
- NEW YORK, NEW YORK — Moyers & Company is a weekly public affairs program that features veteran broadcast journalist Bill Moyers in conversation with a range of.
PBS program, NOW with Bill Moyers I was contacted by a Producer for the PBS television program, NOW with Bill Moyers. She wanted to interview individuals who have. Outsourcing and Patriotism. Following is Bill Moyers inteview with CNN's Lou Dobbs on the PBS program NOW. Moyers starts the interview by.
Bill Moyers' Departure From TV Is a Huge Loss for Independent Journalism. This week PBS stations around the country will broadcast the final segment of Moyers & Company, Bill Moyers' provocative, groundbreaking interview show. Moyers, who came to PBS in 1.
He will continue to write, speak out, and produce his remarkable website, filled each day with insightful articles by Bill and others about dangers to our democracy and battles for social justice. But the end of Moyers' regular presence on television will leave a huge hole in America's broadcast landscape.
No other program has journalistic breadth and depth, as well as the progressive viewpoint, that Moyers' show has provided views for over four decades. Will PBS - - which has been under increasing pressure from Congress and funders to move to the right - - even try to fill that gap? Moyers, who turned 8. June, has been one of the most prolific and influential figures in American journalism.
Not content just to diagnose and document corporate and political malpractice, Moyers has regularly taken his cameras and microphones to cities and towns where unions, community organizations, environmental groups, tenants rights activists, and others were waging grassroots campaigns for change. Moyers has given them a voice. He has used TV as a tool to expose political and corporate wrongdoing and to tell stories about ordinary people working together for justice. He has introduced America to great thinkers, activists, and everyday heroes typically ignored by mainstream media. He has produced dozens of hard- hitting investigative documentaries uncovering corporate abuse of workers and consumers, the corrupting influence of money in politics, the dangers of the Religious Right, conservatives' attacks on scientists over global warming, and many other topics. A gifted storyteller, Moyers' TV shows, speeches, and magazine articles have roared with a combination of outrage and decency, exposing abuse and celebrating the country's history of activism.
Moyers' website offers full streaming video and podcasts of Moyers & Company, online- only essays, analytical blogs, interactive features, as well as an extensive video library of Moyers' past work. There you can browse and view hundreds of Moyers' programs covering a wide range of topics including the economy, faith and reason, money and politics, war, media, and the arts. Moyers has spent most of his broadcast career on public television, whose audience is considerably smaller than that of the major networks.
But his influence - - through his documentaries, interviews, books, magazine articles, and speeches, and because of the ripple effects of his calls to conscience - - has been great nonetheless. He has received over 3. Emmy Awards (including a Lifetime Emmy), a lifetime Peabody Award, an Alfred I.
Du. Pont- Columbia University award, a George Polk Career Award (his third Polk award), induction into the Television Hall of Fame, and many other honors for his contributions to journalistic integrity and investigative reporting. His wife, Judith Davidson Moyers, has been his partner in many of his journalistic endeavors as well as a committed activist and public servant on her own. Moyers assembled aremarkable teamof writers and producers who have helped him create his show, taped at the City University of New York television station's HDTV studio in midtown Manhattan. Earlier this year I interviewed Moyers for a cover storyin The Progressivemagazine. I asked him if he saw any signs that America is ready to challenge the plutocracy and restore more democracy. Ninety- six percent of the people believe it's .
Yet 9. 1 percent think it's . Think about that: People know what's right to do yet don't think it can or will be done. When the public loses faith in democracy's ability to solve the problems it has created for itself, the game's almost over.
And I think we are this close to losing democracy to the mercenary class. Neither of his parents went to high school. Dirt- poor, they worked as farmers until they could not make it anymore because of bad weather and the boll weevil. When Moyers was born, the family lived in southeast Oklahoma, where his father was making $2 a day working on highway construction.
When he got a job driving a creamery truck, they moved to Marshall, Texas. In a 2. 00. 8 show Moyers recalled. His last paycheck was the most he'd ever taken home in a week, $9.
I saw then how unions struggled to preserve the middle class, and can make the difference between earning a living wage and being part of the working poor. We're all in this together. I take 'We, the People' seriously because I don't know how we build a civilization without reciprocity. There's a moral contract in that Preamble.
And although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has the right to subpoena your conscience. One of his first stories was the . Their lawyer - - former right- wing Congressman Martin Dies Jr.- - lost the case. Moyers was thrilled when the Associated Press picked up the story. Only later did it dawn on him that that the newspaper never covered stories about Marshall's African Americans, who made up half the town's population. He spent a summer interning on then- senator Lyndon B. Johnson's reelection campaign.
Impressed with the young Moyers, LBJ suggested that he transfer to the University of Texas in Austin. There he majored in journalism and the liberal arts while working full- time as assistant news editor for KTBC- TV for $1. Graduating in 1. 95. University of Edinburgh in Scotland and at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, where as the weekend pastor of two small rural churches he inflicted . In 1. 95. 9, he moved to Washington, DC, to work for Johnson. He helped run LBJ's 1. John F. Kennedy's running mate.
Moyers was a founding organizer of the Peace Corps in 1. President Kennedy.
After Kennedy was assassinated, LBJ brought Moyers to the White House as his assistant for domestic policy with responsibility for shepherding the task forces that led to LBJ's Great Society program. Moyers played a key role in helping LBJ pass the Civil Rights Act of 1.
Voting Rights Act of 1. He was with LBJ when the president met with Martin Luther King Jr. King disagreed, reminding LBJ of the history of murders, lynchings, and humiliation, insisting that the protests were necessary to draw attention to the need for civil rights legislation. As Moyers recalled: . He listened, and then he put his hand on Martin Luther King's shoulder, and said, in effect: 'OK.
King and keep doing what you're doing, and make it possible for me to do the right thing.'. With Moyers at the helm, Newsday expanded its news agenda, recruited a wide range of writers, and won many major journalism awards. But Harry Guggenheim, Newsday's conservative owner, disapproved of the paper's liberal innovations under Moyers, particularly what he called its . In 1. 96. 8 Guggenheim signed an editorial supporting Richard Nixon's presidential candidacy, while Moyers published his support of Hubert Humphrey.
Moyers resigned in 1. Listening to America: A Traveler Rediscovers His Country. The following year, he began his long relationship with public television, interrupted by a decade (1.
CBS News. In order to maintain his journalistic independence, Moyers formed his own production company and raised all the funds for his many productions. At PBS, Moyers, a master of the long interview, has had the freedom to craft his own programs, including Now with Bill Moyers, Moyers on America, Bill Moyers Journal, and Moyers & Company, which began in 2. He has interviewed important thinkers and activists rarely seen on television, including organizers like Ernesto Cort. As he related in his book, Moyers on America- -A Journalist and His Times. A Washington Post columnist took a dig at the broadcast on the morning of the day it aired- -without even having seen it- -and later confessed to me that the dirt had been supplied by a top lobbyist for the chemical industry.
But the experience was one more reminder to Moyers of the corrosive effect of corporate power on the common good. Moyers's 2. 00. 7 documentary Buying the Warreported how most of the press corps became complicit with the Bush administration's invasion of Iraq. And the press is supposed to be a watchdog.
During the broadcast, Moyers said: ? Truth is, there's been a class war waged in America for thirty years now from the top down, and the rich have won. But when the tobacco industry stuffs $1. Congress and gets protection in return, we call that a campaign contribution. Stone. But if he could be anyone today, Moyers said, it would be Ambrose Bierce.
They beat him just as he was about to buy the last man. Oh, for that kind of impact today! He also mentioned several muckraking films, including Michael Moore's Sicko and Capitalism: A Love Story, Charles Ferguson's Inside Job, and Alex Gibney's Taxi to the Dark Side.
Everything else is publicity. They wouldn't miss the money, and democracy would still have a fighting chance because of their investment.
Working Towards Progressive Reform and Social Justice – The Atlantic Philanthropies. Join your colleagues for an informal interview with Gara La. Marche, CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, and Deepak Bhargava, Executive Director of the Center for Community Change, moderated by the award winning journalist and public commentator Bill Moyers. Discussion will focus on pressing issues that the Obama administration is currently tackling, including immigration reform, financial reform, and healthcare. Date: 1. 0/1. 3/2. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION4: 1.
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