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Who Says There’s No Good News — ‘Bill Moyers Journal’ Is Finally Off the Air
big journalism ^ | 5/2/10 | Michael Walsh

Posted on 05/02/2010 7:34:10 PM PDT by Nachum

Sad but true: Bill Moyers Journal has shuffled off the air and into the archives of PBS and the Paley Center for Media. From a story in the Columbia Journalism Review:

In 1948, when he was fourteen years old, Bill Moyers heard Lyndon Johnson give a rousing speech at a courthouse in Marshall, Texas. Without a megaphone or a loudspeaker, LBJ mesmerized the crowd. “I remember the sheer presence of the man,” Moyers has recalled. “And I thought, ‘That’s what power is. And this man is reaching this audience. And he’s got this audience. And he’s telling this audience something that’s very important.’ ” Years later, through a different medium—television—Moyers would achieve a similar kind of power, and he has yet to abuse it. Moyers’s conversational ease, his earnest delivery, his fierce intelligence—all of it has transformed him into our leading television intellectual, and a worthy successor to Edward R. Murrow.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bill; good; moyers; news
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To: Western Phil
You got that right.
How does a guy who only taught school for a couple of years and spent the rest of his adult life in congress amass the fortune his family had when he passed away.
Never been asked by the media!!!
What a great manager of money, except the country's.
Bramps
21 posted on 05/02/2010 8:09:37 PM PDT by bramps
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To: Nachum

Broken down old liberal. He and Daniel Schorr should share the same room at NPR’s retirement village for America haters.


22 posted on 05/02/2010 8:10:13 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Old Landmarks

Lyndon B. Johnson was a very evil man who promoted big government and was a Bible hating, do-good liberal. He was a liar for the leftist cause who never figured out that his Democrat party was the enemy of true freedom.

LBJ’s only endearing quality was his hatred for Bobby Kennedy.


23 posted on 05/02/2010 8:12:05 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Old Landmarks
Even has Moyers leaves, he gives voice to Michael Zweig, who says the American Dream will be accomplished by collectivist action (see second video from page linked above).

Such a thuggish, murder-inciting Commie, that Moyers!

HF

24 posted on 05/02/2010 8:17:26 PM PDT by holden
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To: Nachum
That's Moyers standing in the rear, on the right side:


25 posted on 05/02/2010 8:18:14 PM PDT by Deo volente (God willing, America will survive this Obamination.)
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To: Old Landmarks

lyndon johnson was the bill clinton prototype. coward and bully.


26 posted on 05/02/2010 8:22:03 PM PDT by gussiefinknottle (woof!woof!woof!)
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To: Drango

Thanks, but the title I was searching for is the one in the thread. I had not even pulled up search and typed in the title. It was strange


27 posted on 05/02/2010 8:35:09 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Nachum

Let’s pray he joins Howard Zinn and Teddy Kennedy in a condo down in Hotville one day for his treason.


28 posted on 05/02/2010 8:57:32 PM PDT by wac3rd (Prepare for the November 2010 Tsunami)
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To: Nachum
...Moyers would achieve a similar kind of power, and he has yet to abuse it. Moyers’s conversational ease, his earnest delivery, his fierce intelligence—all of it has transformed him into our leading television intellectual, and a worthy successor to Edward R. Murrow....

Worthy of a couple of barf alerts right there.
29 posted on 05/02/2010 9:00:05 PM PDT by rottndog (WOOF!!! Be prepared for what's coming AFTER America.....)
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To: FormerACLUmember; Borges
“Wasn’t Moyers basically LBJ’s sock puppet?”

More like is love sock.
30 posted on 05/02/2010 9:02:32 PM PDT by rottndog (WOOF!!! Be prepared for what's coming AFTER America.....)
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To: Nachum; All

Am I correct in recalling that the infamous daisy ad in the 1964 campaign was Moyers’ idea?


31 posted on 05/02/2010 9:09:07 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
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To: Nachum
Well, bye!!




32 posted on 05/02/2010 9:45:55 PM PDT by Bean Counter (We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office -- Aesop)
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To: Nachum
“I remember the sheer presence of the man,” Moyers has recalled. “And I thought, ‘That’s what power is. And this man is reaching this audience. And he’s got this audience. And he’s telling this audience something that’s very important.’ ” Years later, through a different medium—television—Moyers would achieve a similar kind of power

Yes, except for the audience part.

33 posted on 05/02/2010 9:51:20 PM PDT by denydenydeny (The welfare state turns us all into zoo animals, mouths open, waiting for the next feeding.)
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To: wac3rd

I’m a little out of the loop when it comes to Moyers. What exactly did he do to earn the enmity. A Press Secretary turned talk show host...


34 posted on 05/03/2010 6:41:58 AM PDT by Borges
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