I hope everybody's watching Bill Moyers "NOW."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

This is his last broadcast, and it's terrific. He's totally blasting the right-wing media -- exposing the lies and propaganda. Tune in!

[eaprez]

1. I watched it....too bad only people who already agree with him will see it

[checks-n-balances]

2. This is an EXCELLENT program tonight

It needs to be made available online or on video so that we can pass it on to friends - people who don't realize how this country has been the proverbial frog doing a slow boil in the propaganda kettle...

[Acryliccalico]

3. Yes, we need someone to pas it on. I don't get PBS

I couldn't watch :cry:

[knowbody0]

4. can't watch yet, does he have any advice?

[GreatAuntK]

5. Transcript will be available later

apparently.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2839994

[checks-n-balances]

6. Thanks for the heads up - n/t

[VOX]

18. Thanks!

:kick:

[Ilsa]

7. I loved how he signed off.

I watched Brokaw sign off. All about "me me me". Moyers was talking about our democracy being under fire. Huge difference in the way they signed off. Makes Brokaw's look like an elementary school's news show with TB signing off because he was headed to junior high.

[Laelth]

8. Just got finished watching it.

It was a superb show. The most memorable quote (for me) was this:

Moyers said, "The news is what powerful people want to keep hidden."

I had to let that sink in for a minute, but once I did, I couldn't agree more. It explains why Fox News is not news but, rather, propaganda. Propaganda shows you what the powerful people want you to see. Real news shows you what the powerful people don't want you to see.

Bill Moyers is a true patriot, and his presence in journalism will be missed.

:dem:

-Laelth

[Nordic]

17. Wow. What a great quote

Every j-school graduate should have that tatooed on the inside of their eyelids.

[rman]

19. Rubin Frank, NBC: "News is what someone wants to suppress,

everything else is advertising."

Frank Sesno, CNN
"We tell the people what they need to know,
not what they want to know."

Richard Salent, CBS
"Our job is to give people not what they want,
but what we decide they ought to have."

C.E.O. of Westinghouse(CBS), Advertising Age, February 3, 97
"We are here to serve advertisers. That is our raison d'etre."

[Lorien]

9. Wish I could

canceled the basic cable, which was the only way I could get PBS. The only thing I've missed about basic cable is Moyers, and now he's leaving! :-(

[devilgrrl]

10. So far it's making me ill...

with the rightwing fucktard he has on now.

[Ilsa]

12. That Vagueries guy is killing me!

That smug, pus-sucking freeptard needs to have his head buried in a latrine for a week.

[K-W]

14. remember, the truth isnt a fact, it is an opinion.

You get to choose what is true and what isnt true.

Its a special gift god gave to Americans.

[kentuck]

15. Right. Everything is an opinion....No such thing as facts....

That's what he said.

[Hieronymus]

16. Was that Regnery?

What a disgusting excuse for a human being.:puke:

[yowzayowzayowza]

11. Moyers..

WILL be missed.

[knowbody0]

13. I think he will ve back somewhere

pbs is starting to suck too

[For PaisAn]

20. Hitler reference

Check the transcript when it becomes available. On tonight's show Moyers compared the Bush Regime to Hitler. It was in the beginning of the show and he phrased it as only Moyers can.