Stories by Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers is president of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy.
We talk about violence committed in the name of bigotry or religion. But what about the deadly firepower available to the killers?
Posted on Jun 13, 2009
Journalist Jeremy Scahill warns against the growing power of corporate private armies and the "disintegration of the nation state apparatus."
Posted on Jun 9, 2009
The health care industry has spent $134 million on lobbying this year to keep its profits high and public health in the shadows.
Posted on May 24, 2009
HBO's critically-acclaimed "The Wire" creator David Simon talks about inner-city crime and politics, storytelling and the future of journalism.
Posted on Apr 21, 2009
One of America's top bank fraud experts explains the financial industry's "liar's loans" and wholesale greed that got us in this mess.
Posted on Apr 6, 2009
What needs to be done to protect the American taxpayer from the next round of multi-hundred billion dollar layoffs.
Posted on Mar 4, 2009
Can change happen when the usual suspects are piling up money like sandbags against the public's clamor for a better deal? We'll find out.
Posted on Nov 3, 2008
The execs who got us into our current mess are still pulling in the lucre.
Posted on Sep 23, 2008
Author Bill Greider explains to Moyers that the magic of the "free market" is coming to a close.
Posted on Jul 22, 2008
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
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
The legendary journalist electrifies packed crowd at National Conference for Media Reform.
Posted on Jun 7, 2008
For all of America's shortcomings, we keep telling ourselves, "The system works." Now all bets are off.
Posted on May 17, 2008
White preachers are given leeway in politics that Jeremiah Wright wasn't.
Posted on May 3, 2008
Moyers: Journalists' "deeper mission is to uncover the news that powerful people would prefer to keep hidden."
Posted on Apr 10, 2008
"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
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
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
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
The Abramoff and DeLay corruption scandals make it clear that now more than ever we need publically financed elections.
Posted on Feb 27, 2006
Moyers addresses the Bush administration's obsession with secrecy and its bullying and manipulation of PBS.
Posted on Dec 16, 2005
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
Who needs a movie when you have the news?
Posted on Jul 26, 2004
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
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
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
One of the most respected commentators on television explains why he is bidding his viewers goodbye.
Posted on Mar 17, 2004
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
Skirting existing FCC regulations, Big Media controls more of what we hear, read and watch.
Posted on Oct 10, 2003
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
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
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
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
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