Bill Moyers Fights Back (Thought I'd honor Bill for my 1000th post!)

[UCLA Dem]

Bill Moyers is not taking attacks by Bush Administration allies on public broadcasting in general and his journalism in particular sitting down.

"I should put my detractors on notice," declared the veteran journalist who stepped down in January as the host of PBS's NOW With Bill Moyers, who recently turned 70. "They might compel me out of the rocking chair and into the anchor chair."

Moyers closed the National Conference on Media Reform in St. Louis on Sunday with his first public response to the revelation that White House allies on the board of directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting have secretly been holding PBS in general -- and his show in particular -- to a partisan litmus test.

"I simply never imagined that any CPB chairman, Democrat or Republican, would cross the line from resisting White House pressure to carrying it out for the White House. And that's what (CPB chair) Kenneth Tomlinson has been doing."

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0516-26.htm

[graysmoke]

1. Passionate Delivery

I heard most of it on C-span, at least I think he was just at the beginning when I tuned in - have never heard Bill more emotional. I have often wished he'd consider running for major office.

graysmoke

[newyawker99]

6. Hi graysmoke!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[acmejack]

2. Very appropriate!

Moyers deserves every honor we can bestow upon him. The man is a national treasure.

[housewolf]

3. There is no one better you could have honored with this

Bill Moyers is a true hero. Thank you for thinking about him.

It was a REAL kick-ass speech, I hope everyone gets a chance to either see it on c-span or view the video from the National Conference for Media Reform, the link to the archives from last weekends conference have been posted here several times over the past few days.

[spooky3]

5. Excellent speech. Every line was worth hearing.

[Bread and Circus]

4. He's one of the few good ones left. God bless him.

[RedCloud]

7. Saw it on Democracy Now!

What he failed to mention is that so much news is already pre-censored for fear of losing a right wing corporate news "sponsor", that the left is virtually unheard by the vast majority of Americans. If they had an equal chance to decide things, not too many reds would be out there today.

[siliconefreak]

8. Go Bill Go!

He might not make it into "the anchor chair", but I'd love to see him become the anchor for Air America Radio.