Posted on 02/26/2005 9:57:03 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
Spend five minutes on the phone with Bill Moyers, dubbed by some “the conscience” of American journalism, and it’s abundantly obvious that the man is troubled, and profoundly pissed off; though it’s doubtful someone so imbued with good Southern manners would use such talk. Now 70, Moyers has spent most of the past 55 years hunting the truth behind his craft, a working journalist tracing the twisted paths of power for both newspapers and television. Embodying that rare combination of graciousness, dignity, and passion, Moyers has been audacious enough to tell “the truth behind the news,” rather than to report the “he-said-she-said” ping-pong that often passes for news. And the truth about the news business — and democracy — as Moyers sees, could not be more grim.
The mainstream news media, Moyers laments, has taken a dive at a time when the power of the Republican Party has never been more absolute and more morally bankrupt. As a result, public discourse has been reduced to a scream-fest dominated by such unabashedly conservative media giants as Fox, Clear Channel, and Sinclair, who’ve become “echo chambers” for the Bush administration, if not outright propagandists. And when it comes to the realities of bare-knuckle politics, Moyers is hardly some pious sissy. For three years he worked closely with former President Lyndon Johnson, whose ferocity as a political infighter was exceeded only by his reputed Machiavellian genius. After his stint with Johnson, Moyers went to work for CBS; in 1986 he created his own independent production company, Public Affairs Television...."
‘I never took him as a compassionate conservative. I’m a Texan. I saw what he had done to Texas and I knew he would do to the nation what he had done to Texas. And by God he’s done it.’
— Bill Moyers
But, it still has to sting that he has failed and must inwardly know it, though he will never admit it.
BTW can I get the tax money this bastard stole from me back?
The truth? No he-said, she-said?
"Sean Hannity took his political pornography on the road all over the country." Bill Moyers.
Who wrote this swill, one of his kids? I thought Moyers was about to be procleaimed Greatest Human Ever. You won't find a crankier, more jealous old puke anywhere.
Like Amtrak, PBS should be required to privatize. The taxpayers should never need to subsidize ideology.
For starters, the MSM news business is not related to democracy. More often than not, it stands against democracy.
The mainstream news media, Moyers laments, has taken a dive at a time when the power of the Republican Party has never been more absolute and more morally bankrupt.
[sigh] The MSM's wounds are self-inflicted: they no longer control a Monopoly of Information. Their credibility has been shattered because they've finally been busted using lies to attack conservatives and the Republican party. FOX, Internet, and Blogs have leveled the playing field - the MSM has just been too slow and too stupid to realize it. Decades of censorship and bias are being exposed to the market place of ideas. Get used to it shills, cause its only gonna get worse.
As a result, public discourse has been reduced to a scream-fest dominated by such unabashedly conservative media giants as Fox, Clear Channel, and Sinclair, who’ve become “echo chambers” for the Bush administration, if not outright propagandists
Public discourse between the Right and the Left always starts with the Right pushing a new idea and always ends with the Left screaming "Nazi!". If you thought CNN represented more than half the country, you're in for a long ride.
He's just another ageing looney lefty from tu in Austin. They will soon be gone, and the young crop their "journalism" department is turning out now will have a much harder time finding work in the dying MSM business. That's two happy thoughts for the day you can thank me for.
We need a gag alert on this kind of thing. I've ruined another keyboard.
It's good to know this piece of trash has been taken to the curb to join Tom Brokaw and, soon, Dan Rather. The cosmic garbagemen can't come soon enough to the remove their stench, IMO.
That's two happy thoughts for the day you can thank me for.
OK - Thank you! :-)
Congressman Billybob
Words escape me when writing about Moyers however some years ago a TV producer of a particularly oily type was described as "salami dipped in chicken fat" and that IMHO covers Moyers and his southern charm.
Johnson single handedly destroyed the black family of husband and wife, funneling their energy instead into a victimhood cult of people looking for handouts which was dubbed "The Great Society."
Moyers applauds this?
<< The effrontery of this malignant old bastard! >>
Beautifully expressed!
" I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. "
-- Frank Lloyd Wright -- for;
" As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers. "
-- Thomas Jefferson -- because;
" Newspapers...serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke. "
--Thomas Jefferson
A whole lot of what Moyers is came from that experience. I have to believe that his bitterness is a measure of our success.
Sorry, acolyte-writer Nick Welsh, three seconds is all I could spend on your story before the first 17 words reduced me to helpless laughter.
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