Bill Moyers on Jeremiah Wright's "come apart" at the National Press Club:

[EFerrari]

" ... and he melted down. The Jeremiah Wright I saw on the news that evening was not the Jeremiah Wright I had been with on Friday. And he just came apart—a mystery to me, except that that’s what the media can do in this country. It can so deconstruct you, it can so decompose you, that you lose a sense of who you are."

from a retrospective interview with Amy, rush transcript at link



Bill Moyers on His Legendary Journalism Career: "Democracy Should Be a Brake on Unbridled Greed and Power"

In a Democracy Now! special broadcast, we are joined by legendary journalist Bill Moyers, a founding organizer of the Peace Corps, press secretary for President Lyndon Johnson, a publisher of Newsday, and senior correspondent for CBS News. Public television is where he has made his home, producing many groundbreaking shows and winning more than 30 Emmy Awards. Moyers has just published a new book, "Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues," a collection of interviews from his popular PBS show that aired from 2007 to 2010. "The greatest thing in politics in my time is the transformation of democracy from a citizens society—all that moral agency of all those people in the civil rights movement who stood up against the weight or authority and acted as agents of change—to a consumer society, where most of us are caught up on that treadmill, trying to get more," Moyers says. In a wide-ranging interview, he also discusses the state of the public media infrastructure he helped to establish as part of the Johnson administration. "Public broadcasting, which is a place that treats you a s a citizen instead of a consumer is threatened. We must defend it, we must call it back to its heights. Otherwise we are totally at the mercy of corporate power."



http://www.democracynow.org/2011/6/8/bill_moyers_on_his_legendary_journalism

[Wilms]

1. ^

[EFerrari]

2. Thanks for the kick. This is great television.

[Gregorian]

3. Great great interview.

Very informative. Thank you for posting this.

The change from "citizens" to "consumers" in this society. Just a fantastic interview. Stories of LBJ.

[EFerrari]

4. My pleasure and thanks to everyone for the recs.

Bill Moyers is a treasure, imho.

[Gregorian]

8. That interview has me feeling all kinds of things

I've been saying for ages how we've gone from citizens to consumers. And to hear him mention it makes me feel kind of good in a way. But the history of he and LBJ is one I knew almost nothing about. And how public broadcasting was taking hits right around when I graduated from high school. No wonder my young adult life was plagued with frustration. I grew up in a beautiful world, and then was released into one that was faced with evil demons trying to dismantle it's good points.

Public everything under attack. The man is so brilliant. He's much like my father. Including the divinity degree.

[EFerrari]

9. My dad was a big picture guy, too but no divinity school would probably have him.

lol

:)

[malaise]

5. Thanks

Rec

[EFerrari]

7. Moyers is such a rare and special man.

His high expectations of other people are only tempered by his compassion. He's a helluva role model. And his stories about LBJ are priceless. lol

[JitterbugPerfume]

6. K&R for Moyers