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And yet, it went down like a lead balloon. -- Bill Moyers Journal, Dec. 18, 2009 If you have to watch just one TeeVee debate about the "Rahm Emanuel" version of health care reform which is before the Senate this week, this is the one: Matt Taibbi versus Robert Kuttner, moderated by Bill Moyers.

I am a 66-year-old lifelong Republican who always enjoyed listening to Bill Moyers.

Something's not right here. One year after the great collapse of our financial system, Wall Street is back on top while our politicians dither.

Amidst fading hopes for real reform on issues ranging from high finance to health care, economist Robert Kuttner and journalist Matt Taibbi join Bill Moyers to discuss Wall Street's power over the federal government.

Gabler: "Moyers may be television's only moralist" It's hard to exaggerate the role 'Bill Moyers Journal' the has played in filling a void left by just about every US platform of broadcast... It's hard to exaggerate the role 'Bill Moyers Journal' the has played in filling a void left by just about every US platform of broadcast and print ...

Gabler: "Moyers may be television's only moralist" Los Angeles Times "His mission has always been to make things better, not louder," Neal Gabler writes in his tribute to Bill Moyers .

Published 3 hours, 18 minutes ago at http://www.joescott3.com/index.php/js/afghanistan_winning_will_not_be_easy/ On his PBS television show last month Bill Moyers played clips from the Lyndon B. Johnson tapes.

Over 35 million people in the United States - including more than 12 million children - experience hunger or the risk of hunger.

Give thanks. Because this isn't one of those Thanksgiving lists of things for which we should be grateful -- although health, family, friends, laughter, etc., would certainly all be on mine.

A New York Times article at the link below reports that Bill Moyers will end his Friday night public affairs show, a oeBill Moyers Journal,a on April 30, 2010.

It's bad enough we're going to lose Oprah in 2012, but now, Bill Moyers, too!! Woe unto us! From where shall we get our unbiased, objective analysis? Yes.

Dale Roe writes about television for the Austin American-Statesman. He's worked at the American-Statesman for 10 years and has written family movie and video game reviews as well as watched lots of TV.

Gordon at Alternative Brain reads an on-line article about Bill Moyers and agrees: The Nation talks about a show I watched last Friday evening of LBJ's taped phone conversations and Bill Moyers' commentary.

On Friday, distinguished veteran PBS journalist Bill Moyers announced that he was retiring from weekly television .

Bill Moyers considers a President's decision to escalate troop levels in a military conflict.

The PBS mainstay Bill Moyers said he was retiring from weekly television and would end his Friday night public affairs show, "Bill Moyers Journal," on April 30, 2010.

On Friday night, Bill Moyers played clips from the Lyndon B. Johnson tapes on his PBS television show .

Bill Moyers, who received the highest award bestowed by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 2006--it's Lifetime Achievement Emmy--is retiring from weekly TV, TVWeek Contributor Elizabeth Jensen reports in the New York Times .

News of a TV Legend Ending Show Raises Real Issues About Journalism and Why It's So Importance If you're at all interested in why journalism matters in a free society---and you should be--I want to recommend a book to you.