DON'T MISS MOYER'S FAREWELL TONIGHT ON NOW !! Gonna be a doozie!

[Dover]

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

[laheina]

1. Wow!

He's such an intelligent man, and he will be sorely missed. Thanks for posting this; I'll be sure to tune in.

[wicket]

2. God Bless Bill Moyers

He will be greatly missed :cry:

[FreeStateDemocrat]

3. What are his future plans?

Since he is only 70 and posses an extraordinary knowledgeable insight into our flawed mass media and corrupt government institutions his voice needs to heard in whatever forum he may choose. He is a throwback to a time of trustworthy and diligent investigative journalism that is now only a rare deviation in the indiscriminate corporate profiteering of our main stream media. We cannot afford to lose this distress signal of light in our ever darkening republic.

[pantouflard]

4. He says he's writing a book on LBJ. n/t

[OneBlueSky]

5. again . . . he should be drafted by progressives . . .

to serve as a spokesman/philospher/leader of the emerging progressive majority . . . he's the only journalist telling it like it is vis-a-vis the corporate takeover of the government and the country . . .

[wicket]

6. a kick for the truth

:kick:

[Dover]

7. KICK !!!! And a salute.

[Wonk]

8. Great show so far, and it just started. This is MUST SEE TV, imho. nt

[Dover]

9. I'm so very very sad tonight. I want to clone Moyers. Can't stand to

lose him. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

[DireStrike]

10. Don't worry. Brancaccio is Moyers' hand picked replacement.

I trust we'll see good things from him.

[Dover]

11. Yes I'm sure that's true....but NO ONE can fill Bill's shoes...the one and

ONLY. I can't imagine that his book on LBJ is as important as the work he does on NOW. I look forward to his future documentaries and will devour them like some starving person.

[DireStrike]

12. Ditto.

[RedEarth]

13. I feel the same way......

One of the few sane people in the world of "journalism". Truly gonna miss him.

[burythehatchet]

14. already made a nazi reference...this is good

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. Bill Moyers rocks!

He's just pounding on the right-wing media, especially Hannity and O'Reilly. But hearing this... I truly realize now why Kerry lost. How do you compete with overwhelming partisan media outlets that care nothing about the facts? "Political propaganda masquerading as news." This is a great show...

[hollowdweller]

16. I know what you mean. I mean how do you compete with that? Has to start

with the net.

[For PaisAn]

17. Hitler reference

Check the transcript when it becomes available. On tonight's show Moyers compared the Bush Regime to Hitler. It was in the beginning of the show and he phrased it as only Moyers can.