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Stories by Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers is president of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy.

Nightmare on Wall Street: Washington Can't Bail out the Sea of Red Ink

Author Bill Greider explains to Moyers that the magic of the "free market" is coming to a close.
Posted on Jul 22, 2008

D.C. Is Drowning in a Sea of Campaign Cash

Follow the money -- it goes from your gas tank to the wine bars and steak houses of DC, where the payoffs from big business to politicians go down.
Posted on Jul 21, 2008

The Iraq War Was About Oil, All Along

Oh, no, they told us, Iraq isn't a war about oil. That's cynical and simplistic, they said. It's about terror and al-Qaeda and toppling a dictator.
Posted on Jul 5, 2008

Bill Moyers: 'Journalism in Profound Crisis' (Video)

The legendary journalist electrifies packed crowd at National Conference for Media Reform.
Posted on Jun 7, 2008

Moyers: 'Democracy in America Is a Series of Narrow Escapes, and We May Be Running Out of Luck'

For all of America's shortcomings, we keep telling ourselves, "The system works." Now all bets are off.
Posted on May 17, 2008

Was It Really What Jeremiah Wright Said, Or Was It Because He's Black?

White preachers are given leeway in politics that Jeremiah Wright wasn't.
Posted on May 3, 2008

Bill Moyers Acceptance Speech for the Ridenhour Courage Prize

Moyers: Journalists' "deeper mission is to uncover the news that powerful people would prefer to keep hidden."
Posted on Apr 10, 2008

Bill Moyers: My Father and FDR

"When Roosevelt was President, my father knew he had a friend in the White House. We should rekindle that spirit," Moyers says.
Posted on Nov 22, 2007

Murdoch's Wall Street Journal Bid Is Greed, Pure and Simple

When it comes to money and power, Rupert Murdoch is carnivorous: all appetite and no taste. He'll eat anything in his path.
Posted on Jun 30, 2007

Fighting the 'Imperial' Internet

Corporate media are looking to use the "free market" to add the internet to their empire. But we can't let them dominate the 'net and undermine our democracy.
Posted on Oct 18, 2006

A Time for Heresy

Unless we choose to renew our commitment to America's deepest values, the day will come when we no longer recognize the country we love.
Posted on Mar 24, 2006

Saving Our Democracy

The Abramoff and DeLay corruption scandals make it clear that now more than ever we need publically financed elections.
Posted on Feb 27, 2006

In the Kingdom of the Half-Blind

Moyers addresses the Bush administration's obsession with secrecy and its bullying and manipulation of PBS.
Posted on Dec 16, 2005

Soul Freedom

The notion of spiritual freedom is at risk, and the fourth observance of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 is an appropriate time to think about it.
Posted on Sep 10, 2005

The Mugging of the American Dream

Washington is a divided city -- not between north and south as in Lincoln's time, but between those who can buy all the government they want and those who can't even afford a seat in the bleachers.
Posted on Jun 6, 2005

Moyers Addresses PBS Coup

In this highly anticipated speech the veteran public broadcaster takes on the PBS coup and its right-wing engineers who are 'squealing like a stuck pig.'
Posted on May 17, 2005

Battlefield Earth

The environment is in trouble and the religious right doesn't care. It's time to act as if the future depends on us – because it does.
Posted on Dec 8, 2004

Norquist Gets Candid

Gorver Norquist, leader of the American conservative movement, shares his vision of the next four years with the GOP in control of Washington.
Posted on Nov 9, 2004

Journalism Under Fire

"I believe democracy requires 'a sacred contract' between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works."
Posted on Sep 18, 2004

Asleep at the Wheel

Much of the truth about 9/11 is now public, thanks to the Commission's report: Key government officials failed the system, and they failed the American people.
Posted on Sep 10, 2004

Outsourcing and Patriotism

Lou Dobbs talks about how American businesses are putting their interests ahead of the national interest with the outsourcing of jobs.
Posted on Aug 21, 2004

The Real Show

Who needs a movie when you have the news?
Posted on Jul 26, 2004

The Fight of Our Lives

Some things are worth getting mad about. Case in point: the growing, vast equality gap between the richest and the poorest Americans. If this isn't class war, what is?
Posted on Jun 16, 2004

The Media, Politics and Censorship

Every news organization has First Amendment rights. But speaking out is one thing, keeping others from being heard is another.
Posted on May 7, 2004

Calling of a Generation

We Americans cannot begin to do our part in the battle against terrorism as long as the Bush White House makes it a partisan cause.
Posted on Apr 7, 2004

Farewell to the Sixties

One of the most respected commentators on television explains why he is bidding his viewers goodbye.
Posted on Mar 17, 2004

The Media Consolidation Beat Goes On

The imperial union of media and government is the most important story of all, the one that determines what other stories get told.
Posted on Dec 1, 2003

Big Media Gets Bigger

Skirting existing FCC regulations, Big Media controls more of what we hear, read and watch.
Posted on Oct 10, 2003

Acceptance of America's Future

In a speech for the Take Back America conference, Moyers takes a look at the progressive landscape: the many accomplishments and the work that lies ahead.
Posted on Jun 10, 2003

Another Day, Another $350 Billion in Debt

While the rich reap instant rewards from the Bush tax cut, the poor get stiffed again in a last minute act of Congressional cowardice: Dropping a $400 child tax credit for the working class.
Posted on May 30, 2003

On the Role of a Journalist In a Democracy

Every Memorial Day I think about what our soldiers did on D-Day and what we owe them. They thought democracy was worth fighting for. The least we can do is to help make democracy worthy of them.
Posted on May 25, 2003

Barry Diller Takes on Media Deregulation

The founder of Fox Broadcasting and present CEO of USA Networks is an unlikely but passionate opponent of plans to loosen media ownership rules.
Posted on Apr 28, 2003

Perle Resignation Changes Little

Moyers talks to Chuck Lewis of the Center for Public Integrity about Richard Perle's resignation from the Defense Policy Board.
Posted on Mar 31, 2003

Republican Politics, Then and Now

One of the most important differences between the right-wing of this country in the 1950s and today is that the extremists were few and far between in the 50s, and they are the standard today.
Posted on Nov 12, 2002