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PBS/NPR become annoying beggars
Start with PBS, and NPR. I’m a guy who loves good nonprofit public television, and radio, and I’m herewith disgusted with it. PBS has its Masterpiece series, its documentaries; it has Bill Moyers and those beloved British comedies; NPR has great shows like Fresh Air and Prairie Home Companion and…
Moyers guest: U.S. is looking at immigration from the wrong direction
Author Luis Alberto Urrea was Bill Moyers’s guest on this week’s edition of “Moyers and Company.” Urrea has dedicated his life to telling the stories of the people who live along the 1,969 miles of border between the U.S. and Mexico. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and “Anglo”…
Moyers guest: Big money’s influence in DC ‘outrageous, offensive and corrosive of democracy’
On Friday, April 27, Bill Moyers welcomed Marty Kaplan to “Moyers and Company” to talk about the influence of big money in politics and how it has resulted in what Kaplan calls a “Disney World of Democracy.” Kaplan would know, as the former Dean of the Annenberg School of Communication…
Writer Eric Alterman tells Moyers liberals need to regain ‘fighting spirit’
Writer and historian Eric Alterman appeared on the April 20 edition of “Moyers and Company” to discuss his new book The Cause: The Fight for American Liberalism from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama. In a wide-ranging and thoughtful discussion, Alterman makes the case to Bill Moyers that while social liberalism…
Bill Moyers and Angela Glover Blackwell discuss ‘Occupy,’ race and the American Dream
The latest episode of Moyers & Company featured an interesting discussion between Moyers and activist Angela Glover Blackwell. Blackwell is a “national leader for social justice and equity” and is the author of Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America’s Future. During the exchange, the two discussed the “Occupy” movement, social…
Moyers guest: Ordinary people are the world’s only hope
Former diplomat Carne Ross believes that the Occupy movement and the power of ordinary people taking action can change the course of history and break the grip in which the wealthiest and most powerful 1 percent hold major world governments. On this week’s “Moyers and Company” with Bill Moyers, Ross…
Moyers guest: Obama needs to back up populist rhetoric
Community organizer George Goehl would be glad if there was a national leader who could pressure the big banks to pay their fair share of taxes and deal honestly with the mortgage crisis by writing down the principle for underwater homeowners. He wishes President Obama could be such a leader,…
Bill Moyers and Andrew Bacevich discuss ‘neo-con armchair warriors’ and the futility of ‘endless’ war
To mark the nine-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, this week’s episode of Moyers & Company featured a fascinating discussion with West Point graduate, Vietnam vet and scholar Andrew Bacevich. Bacevich is the noted author of the best-seller The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism. Host…
Reagan budget director discusses ‘crony capitalism’ with Bill Moyers
Former Reagan budget director David Stockman joined Bill Moyers Friday evening for a lengthy and candid discussion on the symbiotic relationship between Wall Street and the White House: Now a businessman who says he was “taken to the woodshed” for telling the truth about the administration’s tax policies, Stockman speaks…
Moyers: ‘We can’t count on divine intervention’
In his latest essay Friday evening, PBS host Bill Moyers expressed concern over the growing rate of children not being vaccinating due to their parents receiving exemptions from states for religious purposes. Inspired by what he witnessed in the movie Contagion, Moyers mentioned a variety of statistics to his audience…
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