Who Says There’s No Good News — ‘Bill Moyers Journal’ Is Finally Off the Air

big journalism ^ | 5/2/10 | Michael Walsh

[Nachum]

Sad but true: Bill Moyers Journal has shuffled off the air and into the archives of PBS and the Paley Center for Media. From a story in the Columbia Journalism Review:

In 1948, when he was fourteen years old, Bill Moyers heard Lyndon Johnson give a rousing speech at a courthouse in Marshall, Texas. Without a megaphone or a loudspeaker, LBJ mesmerized the crowd. “I remember the sheer presence of the man,” Moyers has recalled. “And I thought, ‘That’s what power is. And this man is reaching this audience. And he’s got this audience. And he’s telling this audience something that’s very important.’ ” Years later, through a different medium—television—Moyers would achieve a similar kind of power, and he has yet to abuse it. Moyers’s conversational ease, his earnest delivery, his fierce intelligence—all of it has transformed him into our leading television intellectual, and a worthy successor to Edward R. Murrow.

[bramps]

You got that right.
How does a guy who only taught school for a couple of years and spent the rest of his adult life in congress amass the fortune his family had when he passed away.
Never been asked by the media!!!
What a great manager of money, except the country's.
Bramps

[Huskrrrr]

Broken down old liberal. He and Daniel Schorr should share the same room at NPR’s retirement village for America haters.

[Huskrrrr]

Lyndon B. Johnson was a very evil man who promoted big government and was a Bible hating, do-good liberal. He was a liar for the leftist cause who never figured out that his Democrat party was the enemy of true freedom.

LBJ’s only endearing quality was his hatred for Bobby Kennedy.

[holden]

Even has Moyers leaves, he gives voice to Michael Zweig, who says the American Dream will be accomplished by collectivist action (see second video from page linked above).

Such a thuggish, murder-inciting Commie, that Moyers!

HF

[Deo volente]

That's Moyers standing in the rear, on the right side:

[gussiefinknottle]

lyndon johnson was the bill clinton prototype. coward and bully.

[Kaslin]

Thanks, but the title I was searching for is the one in the thread. I had not even pulled up search and typed in the title. It was strange

[wac3rd]

Let’s pray he joins Howard Zinn and Teddy Kennedy in a condo down in Hotville one day for his treason.

[rottndog]

...Moyers would achieve a similar kind of power, and he has yet to abuse it. Moyers’s conversational ease, his earnest delivery, his fierce intelligence—all of it has transformed him into our leading television intellectual, and a worthy successor to Edward R. Murrow....

Worthy of a couple of barf alerts right there.

[rottndog]

“Wasn’t Moyers basically LBJ’s sock puppet?”

More like is love sock.

[Hunton Peck]

Am I correct in recalling that the infamous daisy ad in the 1964 campaign was Moyers’ idea?

[Bean Counter]

Well, bye!!

[denydenydeny]

“I remember the sheer presence of the man,” Moyers has recalled. “And I thought, ‘That’s what power is. And this man is reaching this audience. And he’s got this audience. And he’s telling this audience something that’s very important.’ ” Years later, through a different medium—television—Moyers would achieve a similar kind of power

Yes, except for the audience part.

[Borges]

I’m a little out of the loop when it comes to Moyers. What exactly did he do to earn the enmity. A Press Secretary turned talk show host...