Moyer's Swan Song

[GettysbergII]

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/041210/ap/d86sgqug0.html

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. "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."

For that, his absence after the Dec. 17 "Now" will be all the more keenly felt: Moyers' interest has always been the American people. [/i}

[Gloria]

1. Local PBS has put Now at .....1 AM, while McLaughlin

is at a primetime hour......

Screw em.

[GettysbergII]

3. I've been a huge Moyer's fan ever since he did the series

on mythology with Joseph Campbell, another hero of mine.

[rodeodance]

2. good for him!!!!

[ooglymoogly]

4. when moyers goes i will stop all support of pbs

[GettysbergII]

5. Unfortunately I must agree

Their programming during the Republican Convention and after each debate was terribly disappointing. And of course you won't here the "F" word on PBS re: the election.