NOW with Bill Moyers
Friday, October 10, 2003 at 9PM on PBS
(Check local listings at
http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html)
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This week on NOW:
* Big media strikes again. Bill Moyers on the FCC.
* Religious groups are getting your tax dollars. Is the separation of church and state at risk? Go inside the debate in FUNDING FAITH.
* A mutual funds scandal has shaken investors from Wall Street to Main Street. David Brancaccio talks to John Bogle, who FORTUNE magazine has called one of the investment industry's "four giants of the 20th century."
* From the novel STRAY DOGS to the feature film THREE KINGS to the TV series THIRD WATCH, writer, director and humorist John Ridley brings his edgy wit and keen insight to bear on today's headlines. A Bill Moyers interview.
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FUNDING FAITH
Despite opposition from Congress, President Bush has pushed ahead with his faith-based initiative. He wants to fund religious groups to play a much larger role in running government social services. Already, taxpayer-funded faith offices have sprouted up in some of the most powerful federal agencies - including Health and Human Services, Justice, and Housing and Urban Development. These offices will help funnel billions of tax dollars to religious and other groups. But critics worry, are these religious groups doing what the law expressly forbids: trying to convert the people they are helping? NOW continues its report on the changing relationship between church and state. With the potential of billions of tax dollars headed to faith-based groups, the broadcast examines the debate between critics who claim that there is a political agenda that threatens democracy behind the faith-based initiative, and supporters who say religious groups only want to help people in need.
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JOHN BOGLE
NOW with Bill Moyers co-host David Brancaccio interviews Wall Street insider John Bogle. Founder of the Vanguard Group, one of the biggest mutual fund organizations in the world, Bogle has been about the state of American capitalism. Brancaccio talks to Bogle about the mutual fund scandal that has rocked Wall Street and left millions of Americans alarmed about their future, and how to restore confidence in an era that some call unregulated greed.
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JOHN RIDLEY
John Ridley has been called a "triple-threat" writer of novels, film and television. His work includes: the Hollywood films UNDERCOVER BROTHER, THREE KINGS, the network television series THIRD WATCH MARTIN, and the critically acclaimed novels STRAY DOGS, LOVE IS A RACKET, EVERYBODY SMOKES IN HELL and most recently THOSE WHO WALK IN DARKNESS. Bill Moyers sits down with Ridley and taps into his keen insight for a lively discussion of the intersection of politics and entertainment.
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NOW WITH BILL MOYERS continues online at PBS.org (www.pbs.org/now). Log on to the site for a primer on the new church and state course in the supreme court; for a background on the philosophy of compassionate conservatives; for resources on finding out who owns the media in your town; for updates on corporate scandals; for a background on the emerging problems in the mutual funds industry; and more.
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