Bill Moyers is Leaving PBS in November

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Say it ain't so!!!! We *need* Bill Moyers.

AP Newsbreak: Bill Moyers to Leave PBS


NEW YORK - Bill Moyers, whose weekly magazine "Now" on PBS has capped a 30-year career in TV journalism, is leaving the broadcast after the November elections.

His next venture: Writing a long-planned book about Lyndon Johnson, whom he served before and during Johnson's presidency.

"It isn't because I feel old," Moyers, 69, told The Associated Press of his decision to move on, which was made official Thursday. "It's because I feel compelled to do something else now, that only I can do - which is that book."

Moyers has been host of the program as well as an executive editor and frequent reporter since its premiere in January 2002.

Airing Friday nights at 8:30 p.m. EST on most PBS stations, "Now" is a diverse mix of reports and in-studio interviews whose aim, in Moyers' words, "is to tell stories nobody else is telling and put on people who have no forum elsewhere."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54450-2004Feb19.html