Bill Moyers Fights Back

[Poiuyt]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20050515/cm_thenation/12484/nc:742

Bill Moyers is not taking attacks by Bush Administration allies on public broadcasting in general and his journalism in particular sitting down.

"I should put my detractors on notice," declared the veteran journalist who stepped down in January as the host of PBS's NOW With Bill Moyers, who recently turned 70. "They might compel me out of the rocking chair and into the anchor chair."

Moyers closed the National Conference on Media Reform in St. Louis on Sunday with his first public response to the revelation that White House allies on the board of directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting have secretly been holding PBS in general -- and his show in particular -- to a partisan litmus test.

"I simply never imagined that any CPB chairman, Democrat or Republican, would cross the line from resisting White House pressure to carrying it out for the White House. And that's what (CPB chair) Kenneth Tomlinson has been doing."

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[BlackVelvetElvis]

1. I just finished watching this on CSPAN.

He let loose and kept having to hold off applause. It's not on CSPAN's site yet, keep an eye out for it. It's worth it.

[oasis]

3. Moyer's Sunday address to the National Conference for Media Reform

can be accessed at : www.freepress.net

You're right BlackVelvetElvis, he really let loose.

Moyers explains, step by step, the right wing takeover of public broadcasting. Powerful stuff.

[doodadem]

2. Heard Moyers speech yesterday

from the Media conference. Once again, the man is amazing. If he makes good on his threat to get back in the anchor chair, this administration better look out, because he will report the truth. Not left wing, not right wing, but the facts. It's why they were so upset with him to begin with, and why his show had a HUGE following.
People are hungry for that.