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  Current.org | Critique of "Now with Bill Moyers," 2002
Moyers is the broadest in the curiosity and craft of his journalism, which is to say in the independent quality of his thinking.
This is what binds us peculiarly to Bill Moyers: that his struggles in Christian faith and with Lyndon Johnson, his attachment to civil rights and deep reading, his long observation of the Texas oil oligarchy and his prophetic wars on PAC money all keep revealing themselves.
The smashed sand castle of her cousins’ compound, the survivor rolling in a kind of frenzy of remorse on the rubble, the empty landscape to the far horizon and the frozen blue sky above were all shot, I supposed, with a digital camera, hand-held by a master at a new craft.
www.current.org /news/news0205moyers.html   (1464 words)

  
 The Salon Interview: Bill Moyers - Salon
Bill Moyers is an exceptional case among former White House press secretaries is almost to damn him with faint praise.
Moyers is the intellectual's version of Barbara Walters -- or rather, Walters is the celebrity-struck populist's version of him.
I think the secret to Bill Moyers' success is not merely his benevolent, avuncular manner but his gentle, almost singsong, folksy-yet-learned delivery (which he says he absorbed from the storytelling tradition of rural East Texas, where he was raised).
dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2003/04/07/moyers/index.html   (2111 words)

  
 Bill Moyers speaks his mind on Bush-brand environmental destruction and more | By Amanda Griscom | Grist | Main Dish | ...
Bill Moyers is best known as the broadcast journalist who, for more than 20 years, has brought the public frank, soul-searching, and sometimes frightening examinations of -- well, of almost everything under the sun.
Now, 20 years later -- after eight years of Reagan, four years of Bush the First, and three years of Bush the Second -- that generation of civil servants is gone.
Now look at it: stretches upon stretches of desert, of arid lands inhospitable to human beings, empty of trees and clean water and rolling green grasses.
www.grist.org /news/maindish/2003/08/26/griscom-moyers   (2296 words)

  
 NPR and PBS : NOW with Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers, one of the most recognized and respected journalists in America, anchors the hour-long weekly news program on PBS Fridays at 9 p.m.
NOW returns to the air on most PBS stations on Friday, Aug. 22, 2003, at its regularly scheduled time (check your local listings) with its usual mix of documentary reporting, news analysis, interviews, and articulate commentary.
For the premiere of NOW with Bill Moyers, NPR's senior correspondent Juan Williams reports on Imam Fawaz Damra, the head of the Islamic Center of Greater Cleveland.
www.npr.org /programs/now/index.html   (1480 words)

  
 Which America Will It Be Now ? by Bill Moyers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The bill moved dramatically further, and a portion of that is because of the Clean Elections system they have there, Volenik said.
We will prevail only if we lead by example, as a democracy committed to the rule of law and the spirit of fairness, whose corporate and political elites recognize that it isn't only fire fighters, police and families grieving their missing kin who are called upon to sacrifice.
Bill Moyers is editor in chief of Public Affairs Television, the independent production company he founded in 1986.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Sept_11_2001/Which_America_Moyers.html   (2008 words)

  
 Now with Bill Moyers on KUED 7- The University of Utah
Now with Bill Moyers on KUED 7- The University of Utah
Bill Moyers, one of the most recognized and respected journalists in America, anchors an hour-long weekly news series offering fresh perspectives and analysis on today's events, issues, and the ideas that are shaping our world.
NOW with Bill Moyers includes documentary reporting, in-depth one-on-one interviews and articulate commentary from a wide variety of media-makers and those behind the headlines.
www.kued.org /whatson/series.cgi?nola1=NOWB&channel_id=1   (201 words)

  
 NOW with Bill Moyers. Commentary - Bill Moyers on Election 2002 | PBS
With the exception of Joseph McCarthy and his vicious ilk, they were a reasonable lot, presided over by that giant war hero, Dwight Eisenhower, who was conservative by temperament and moderate in the use of power.
And for the first time in the memory of anyone alive, the entire federal government — the Congress, the Executive, the Judiciary — is united behind a right-wing agenda for which George W. Bush believes he now has a mandate.
And came up with the big prize — monopoly control of the American government, and the power of the state to turn their ideology into the law of the land.
www.pbs.org /now/commentary/moyers15.html   (387 words)

  
 Bill Moyers bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
When PBS and Bill Moyers launched NOW with Bill Moyers in January 2002, it was to report stories that weren’t being covered on any other public affairs broadcast.
Moyers has served as executive editor of Bill Moyers’ Journal on public television, senior news analyst for the CBS Evening News, and chief correspondent for CBS Reports.
For 12 years Moyers was a Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation and now serves as president of The Florence and John Schumann Foundation.
provost.syr.edu /lectures/moyers.asp   (357 words)

  
 Bill Moyers Fights Back
Bill Moyers is not taking attacks by Bush Administration allies on public broadcasting in general and his journalism in particular sitting down.
Moyers closed the National Conference on Media Reform in St. Louis on Sunday with his first public response to the revelation that White House allies on the board of directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting have secretly been holding PBS in general -- and his show in particular -- to a partisan litmus test.
Moyers revealed to the crowd of 2,000 media reform activists that he had written Tomlinson on Friday, suggesting that the pair appear on a PBS program to discuss the controversy.
www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views05/0516-26.htm   (888 words)

  
 Bill Moyers is Insightful, Erudite, Impassioned, Brilliant and the Host of PBS' "NOW" - A BuzzFlash Interview
Bill Moyers will be the keynote speaker at the National Conference on Media Reform (http://www.mediareform.net/conference.php) in Madison, Wisconsin, on Nov. 8.
Moyers is host of the PBS news and public affairs program "NOW with Bill Moyers," airing Friday nights at 9 p.m.
Now, media industry lobbyists point to the existence of the Internet, as well as to the many new digital TV channels now found on cable, when they argue that public policies to ensure ownership diversity or promote competition aren't really necessary today.
www.buzzflash.com /interviews/03/10/int03281.html   (5497 words)

  
 NOW with Bill Moyers. Transcript. January 18, 2002 | PBS
MOYERS: In coming weeks on now, we'll look at the Enron mess from the ground up in Houston, where the state motto, Don't mess with Texas, is part of what's wrong.
MOYERS: Klayman's Judicial Watch contends these secret meetings with anonymous advisors are illegal, and has gone to court to force Cheney to turn over a complete list of industry insiders who advised the task force.
Now maybe the Gulf War in the early '90s was fought for other reasons.
www.natcapsolutions.org /publications_files/NOWTranscript.htm   (7881 words)

  
 NOW (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
NOW is a PBS newsmagazine especially covering social and political issues.
In 2005, NOW came under further attack from Kenneth Tomlinson, the George W. Bush-appointed chair of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
NOW is one of the few programs on public television or radio to refuse to accept corporate funding.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/NOW_with_Bill_Moyers   (236 words)

  
 Bob Kohn's Media Watch: Fisking Bill Moyers -- Part I
It is the source of all that’s wrong with Bill Moyers and his parochial and partisan understanding of journalism.
Moyers finally got around to Rush, who I don't suppose would be offended by the mafia reference which, coming from his followers, would be a symbol of affection.
Before Bill Moyers starts throwing around accusations that Rush Limbaugh is at the head of a "virtual propaganda Army," he better be prepared to provide some examples of false statements of material facts that have not corrected when a correction was warranted.
bobkohn.blogspot.com /2005/01/fisking-bill-moyers-part-i.html   (3101 words)

  
 AlterNet: Election 2004: Outsourcing and Patriotism
Moyers: But libertarian economists like Lew Rockwell, who's been on this show, says it's government that's driving these jobs overseas by their high taxation, by regulation, by the big cost of lawyers.
Moyers: I'm involved with foundations that are out to save the environment, that nonetheless invest in the energy companies that pollute.
Bill Moyers is the host of the weekly public affairs series NOW with Bill Moyers, which airs Friday nights on PBS.
www.alternet.org /election04/19625   (2187 words)

  
 Bill Moyers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Moyers responded to these accusations in a speech given to the National Conference for Media Reform, pointing out that he had repeatedly invited Tomlinson to debate him on the subject, and had repeatedly been ignored [13].
Moyers has drawn further allegations of bias in his role as president of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, [15].
Edgar Hoover's secret files upon their discovery in 1974— Moyers, in his capacity as chief of staff, directed Hoover to have the FBI investigate Barry Goldwater's staff to find similar evidence of homosexual activity, to be used in case Goldwater brought up Jenkins's arrest as a campaign issue.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Moyers   (2145 words)

  
 MAILMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH HOSTS “GLOBAL HEALTH DIALOGUE” BETWEEN BILL MOYERS AND BILL GATES
Bill Moyers addressed a range of issues with Bill Gates, focusing on his role, with his wife Melinda, as co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Moyers explored the genesis of Gates’ philanthropy; the lessons he has learned from his commitment to date; and his extraordinary efforts to build on the advances in science and technology to save lives, improve health, and reduce disease in resource-poor countries throughout the world.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Health Program is focused on increasing global health equity by accelerating the development, deployment, and sustainability of health interventions such as vaccines and other prevention tools that will save lives and dramatically reduce disease in developing countries.
cpmcnet.columbia.edu /dept/sph/news/gates-moyers.html   (488 words)

  
 CNN.com - Bill Moyers leaving his PBS show - Feb. 19, 2004
Bill Moyers, whose weekly magazine "Now" on PBS has capped a 30-year career in TV journalism, is leaving the broadcast after the November elections.
Before he began "Now" with his wife, Judith Davidson Moyers, the couple spent 15 years making long-form documentaries for PBS on such wide-ranging subjects as campaign corruption, the power of myth, drug addiction and modern dance.
"Now," and Moyers' involvement in it, was an outgrowth of the terrorist attacks.
edition.cnn.com /2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/19/tv.bill.moyers.ap   (723 words)

  
 NOW with Bill Moyers
But a NOW investigation has found the Pentagon is not telling the public the whole story about how many soldiers are being injured on a daily basis.
Now, he'll be lucky if he gets close to half of that from his military disability pay.
Now, they want to leverage their authority and to use that political authority in ways that are helpful to their constituencies.
www.duckdaotsu.org /070504-moyers.html   (7957 words)

  
 PBS's NOW with Bill Moyers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
BILL MOYERS: But you hear all this talk in Washington about the answer to getting off dependent oil is to develop fossil, fossil...
BILL MOYERS: But isn't part of the problem that the people we saw in our earlier piece, the energy industry and the administration.
BILL MOYERS: So the answer, as I read you, is not to hug a tree if you want to save the environment, but to hug an economist.
www.rmi.org /sitepages/pid910.php   (1120 words)

  
 Bill Moyers speaks at Ithaca College - "Moyers on America" - on WSKG Radio
cclaimed journalist Bill Moyers, the former host of the PBS television series “Now with Bill Moyers,” gave a public lecture at Ithaca College September 13.
Titled “Moyers on America,” The event was part of a three-day visit to campus by Moyers as the 2005–6 Park Distinguished Visitor in the Roy H. Park School of Communications.
During his long career in both journalism and public service, Bill Moyers has been recognized as one of the unique voices of his generation.
www.wskg.com /moyers-ic.htm   (147 words)

  
 WorkingForChange-Thomas Frank on NOW with Bill Moyers
Now there's many states where this same fight is going on.
It's lower now-- it's now about at the same level as it was in the 1920's, before the great unionizing drive began in the 1930's-- before the New Deal.
Bill Moyers is host of the public affairs series NOW with Bill Moyers, which airs weekly on Friday nights on PBS (check local listings at pbs.org/now).
www.workingforchange.com /article.cfm?ItemID=17266   (2472 words)

  
 Democracy Now! | Bill Moyers Responds to CPB's Tomlinson Charges of Liberal Bias: "We Were Getting it Right, But Not ...
BILL MOYERS: The story I’ve come to share with you goes to the core of our belief that the quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
Now, let me say, it is not likely that with a guy like that as the chief operating officer of the CPB you’re going to find any public television producer say, “Hey, let’s do something on how big media is affecting democracy.” Because what this leads to is preventive capitulation.
Now, Gigot is a smart journalist, a sharp editor and a fine fellow.
www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=05/05/16/1329245   (6029 words)

  
 PBS' NOW With Bill Moyers Exposes Secret Draft Bill from the Department of Justice to Extend Powers of the Patriot Act
The draft bill was provided exclusively to NOW by the Center for Public Integrity, [www.publicintegrity.org], which obtained it from a confidential government source.
David Cole, Georgetown University Law professor and author of Terrorism and the Constitution assessed the document for NOW with Bill Moyers and the Center for Public Integrity.
NOW interviewed executive director of the Center for Public Integrity, Charles Lewis, in New York on Thursday.
www.commondreams.org /headlines03/0207-10.htm   (472 words)

  
 edgewood libertarianism: NOW with Bill Moyers
NEW YORK, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Friday on PBS' NOW with Bill Moyers, the four major third-party candidates take on the issues they believe are being ignored by the two main political parties.
On the evening of the second Presidential debate in St. Louis, NOW's David Brancaccio moderates a conversation between the candidates that were excluded: Reform Party Presidential nominee Ralph Nader and Green Party candidate David Cobb and between Constitution Party candidate Michael Peroutka and Libertarian Party candidate Michael Badnarik.
NOW with Bill Moyers airs Friday, October 8, at 9 p.m.
www.s-seven.net /blog/2004/10/now-with-bill-moyers.php   (259 words)

  
 Current.org | PBS schedules "Now with Bill Moyers"
Bill Moyers agreed to create and launch a new weekly current affairs series for PBS after the network couldn't get producing stations to agree on a major collaboration covering the aftermath of Sept. 11.
Moyers' popularity with PBS viewers and stations, his journalistic sensibility and the foundation grants that he can bring into the funding mix made him a clear candidate for the assignment.
Moyers' company was the one choice among major PBS producers that the public TV system could get behind, according to Russell.
www.current.org /news/news0123moyers.html   (1799 words)

  
 TLPJ - Press - Bill Moyers Highlights Battle Against Mountaintop Mining - Aug. 2, 2002
Bill Moyers, one of the most recognized and respected journalists in America, will highlight Trial Lawyers for Public Justice's battle against mountaintop removal mining on "NOW with Bill Moyers" this Friday, August 2, 2002, at 9:00 p.m.
Moyers anchors the hour-long weekly news series offering fresh perspectives and analysis on today's events, issues, and the ideas that are shaping our world.
TLPJ's legal team in Kentuckians for the Commonwealth includes Hecker, co-counsel; Lovett, Executive Director of Appalachian Center for the Economy and the Environment in Lewisburg, West Virginia, co-counsel; and Joe Childers of Kentuckians For The Commonwealth in Lexington, Kentucky, co-counsel.
www.tlpj.org /moyers_8-2-02.htm   (385 words)

  
 Bill Moyers
But now the melt of the Arctic seems to be releasing so much freshwater into the North Atlantic that even the Pentagon is alarmed that a weakening Gulf Stream could yield abrupt changes, the kind of climate change that threatens civilization.
Now we are buying into the very paradigm of a “war on terror” that our government—with staggering banality, soaring hubris, and stunning bravado—employs to elicit public acquiescence while offering no criterion of success or failure, no knowledge of the cost, and no measure of democratic accountability.
Bill Moyers retired at the end of 2004 as host of the PBS program NOW With Bill Moyers.
www.futurenet.org /article.asp?ID=1187   (2685 words)

  
 Bill Moyers talks to Howard Zinn - BuzzFlash Guest Contribution
NOW with Bill Moyers has been talking to people who take different positions about the impending war with Iraq.
On Friday, January 10, 2002, Bill Moyers speaks with author, historian, and teacher Howard Zinn, who is opposed to the impending war and argues his case in his new book, Terrorism and War.
Read an excerpt from this conversation to be aired on NOW with Bill Moyers Friday, January 10 at 9pm ET on PBS (check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html):
www.buzzflash.com /contributors/03/01/10_Zinn.html   (1202 words)

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