DON'T MISS MOYER'S FAREWELL TONIGHT ON NOW !! Gonna be a doozie! [View All]

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From what this article says, it sounds like Moyers is going out with guns blazing. Don't miss it!


...A day after the telephone interview from his Manhattan production
studio, he sent a draft by e-mail of his final remarks on "Now."
(The program's new host will be David Brancaccio, its current co-host, a former host of "Marketplace" on public radio and a man with a modern irony that Mr. Moyers never managed to master.) In the note that accompanied the draft, Mr. Moyers continued to circle like a warplane, pumping round after round into its intended targets.

"I learned the hard way an old lesson that the greatest moments in the history of the press came not when journalists made common cause with the state but when they stood fearlessly independent of it," he said. "Now we have those megamedia companies that won't speak truth to power and an ideological media that willingly lies for power. Scary!"

In the uninflected medium of e-mail Mr. Moyers's departing exclamation, not couched in his just-us-folks Texas delivery, comes through loud and clear.


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/17/arts/television/17moye.html?adxnnl=1&oref=login&adxnnlx=1103285355-UC5q/xCcwnJ2PcdxJ9Z30Q