PBS has cancelled Bill Moyers Journal & Now

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Tell PBS: Don't Abandon Hard-Hitting Journalism
Now, Bill Moyers Journal need worthy replacements

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3962

12/15/09

Click here to sign FAIR's petition

Bad news for PBS viewers: Now and the Bill Moyers Journal will be taken off the air in April 2010. Both programs stood out as all-too-rare examples of the hard-hitting, independent programming that should thrive on public television--which is why PBS should replace these programs with similarly thoughtful shows that continue this tradition.

From FAIR's action alert:

PBS has offered very little explanation of what will replace these shows, saying only that they will announce changes sometime this month. But one line-up change many PBS viewers will see this February is the addition of Ideas in Action--a show produced by the George W. Bush Institute, part of the new presidential library in Dallas.

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Glassman, a longtime fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, is perhaps best known for his remarkably optimistic--and wrong--book Dow 36,000. He also regularly penned op-eds for major U.S. newspapers that pushed views and policies that would directly benefit sponsors of his online news site, TechCentralStation.com

The purpose of the petition is to ask PBS to continue w/ similar programming, not to force Moyers to continue.
It deserves to go viral. We need these in-depth explorations of issues the rest of TV blacks out.