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| Bill Moyers Retiring From TV Journalism |
| 2004-12-10 |
| "I was just in the editing room, working on the last piece," Bill Moyers says. "I thought: `I've done this so many times, and each one is as difficult as the last one.' Maybe finally I've broken the habit." It hasn't been so much a habit for Moyers as a truth-telling mission during his three decades as a TV journalist. But come next week, he will sign off from "Now," the weekly PBS newsmagazine he began in 2002, as, at age 70, he retires from television. "I'm going out telling the story that I think is the biggest story of our time: how the right-wing media has become a partisan propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee," says Moyers. "I mean for gosh sake! Look at fox! Giving people both sides of the story and letting them decide for themselves instead of what we tell them to think. "We have an ideological press that's interested in the election of Republicans, and a mainstream press that's interested in the bottom line. Therefore, we don't have a vigilant, independent press whose interest is the American people." That explains memogate and the energy the MSM put into soddomizing the Prison Abuse Scandal while ignoring other items (Sudan, Mass graves, Rape rooms, etc...) in order to attack the Republicans and Bush.... For that, his absence after the Dec. 17 "Now" will be all the more keenly felt: Moyers' interest has always been the American people. In 1971, he came to public television as host of "This Week" and "Bill Moyers' Journal," and, next, joined CBS News to do similarly civic-minded programming. Then in 1986 he and his wife, Judith Davidson Moyers, became their own bosses by forming Public Affairs Television, an independent shop that has not only produced documentaries such as "A Walk Through the 20th Century," "Healing and the Mind" and "A Gathering of Men with Robert Bly," but also paid for them through its own fund-raising efforts. "Judith and I will take several months to catch our breath," says Moyers during a recent conversation at the soon-to-be-vacated office he rents at Thirteen/WNET's Manhattan headquarters. "Then I will think about the Last Act — capital L, capital A — of my life." |
| Posted by:CrazyFool |
| #13 To think - to people like Moyers, the problem isn't that the media is liberal. The problem is they're not nearly liberal enough. |
| Posted by: gromky 2004-12-10 7:56:50 PM |
| #12 Good riddance. He should have left years ago; his senses did. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-12-10 6:40:54 PM |
| #11 I'll drink to this...repeatedly! |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2004-12-10 3:20:51 PM |
| #10 What about Marc Rich's testicles? mmm, succulent |
| Posted by: Bill Moyers 2004-12-10 2:58:57 PM |
| #9 What about Marc Rich's testicles? |
| Posted by: Dar 2004-12-10 2:45:40 PM |
| #8 echo the great comments! Hey Bill, the real AWOL story was how you and your commrades missed almost all of the real stories of your time and spent your time cultivating victims. Where were you during the rise of Islamic fanaticism? Talk about BLIND! Other stories you were pathetically AWOL from - The terror of Sadaam Hussein; The starvation of the North Koreans; The genocide against Christians in Africa; Clinton's selling nuclear secrets to the Chinese; Marc Rich's tenacles....I could go on. The bottom line was you guys SUCK as reporters. You rose to your ranks soely because you were partisan hacks. Don't let the screen door hit ya. As .com says, forgotten already. |
| Posted by: 2b 2004-12-10 2:21:03 PM |
| #7 A Gathering of Men with Robert Bly Drumming, bad poetry and It's Okay to Cry. Yuck. |
| Posted by: too true 2004-12-10 2:09:41 PM |
| #6 Bill hasn't been the same since Moskovskiy Kommsomolets was privatized. To think that people like him, Johnson, McNamara, and Ramsey Clark were in power in the 60's. It's a wonder America survived it. |
| Posted by: ed 2004-12-10 2:06:28 PM |
| #5 He's not going to be hogging valuable airtime on my local PBS affiliate anymore with crap like that Robert Bly garbage? This is the best news he's ever reported!!! |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2004-12-10 2:01:50 PM |
| #4 I have no problem with Air America et al , trying to peddle their leftist dribble in teh free marketplace. What I hate with a passion is assholes like Moyers using our tax dollars to try and indoctrinate and criticize conservative (or even MOR in his case) ideas. Good riddance to free-loading trash |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-12-10 2:01:05 PM |
| #3 "We have an ideological press that’s interested in the election of Republicans, and a mainstream press that’s interested in the bottom line. Therefore, we don’t have a vigilant, independent press whose interest is the American people." Was he breathing very heavily when he said this? The true remark should read something like : "We have a new media press that’s interested in the truth, and a mainstream press that’s interested in the the election of Democrats by use of, for example, misinformation provided in forged documents by CBS, and directives of executives like ABC's Marc Halperin to favor Democrats, which has been found out. Therefore, we don’t have the ability, anymore, to pull the wool over the eyes of the American people." |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-12-10 1:56:51 PM |
| #2 Ah, Brokaw, Rather, and now Moyer... It's shaping up to be a pretty good Christmas! |
| Posted by: Dar 2004-12-10 1:48:48 PM |
| #1 Piss off, already. Go. Already forgotten. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-12-10 1:44:48 PM |