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Alterman quotes an interview Moyers did with Salon in 2003:

"I think my life, and certainly my career in journalism, have been informed by two things. One was being a Southerner. Whenever you learned about Southern life, you realize that when we drove the truth-tellers out of the pulpits, out of the editorial rooms and out of the classrooms—people who were telling the truth about slavery—"

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Eric Alterman offers a touching reminiscence of his friend journalist Bill Moyers, noting:

"This ordained Baptist minister from a little town called Marshall, Texas, somehow became, for most practical purposes, my rabbi."

Alterman asks where Moyers got the fortitude to stick to his difficult and solitary path when he was very much a voice crying in the wilderness, especially in his native South.

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newrepublic.com/article/197400

The New Republic · Bill Moyers Had Three Careers and Excelled at Every One of ThemThe Baptist minister from Texas became this New York Jew’s rabbi. How lucky was I?
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Bill Moyers, the legendary PBS journalist and White House press secretary to Lyndon B. Johnson, died last week at age 91. His obituaries talked about his incredible life — born to a dirt farmer in Oklahoma, ordained a Baptist minister, present on Air Force One after the Kennedy assassination. But Mother Jones CEO Monika Bauerlein, who knew Moyers via his work with the Center for Investigative Reporting, says there's another story to tell. "Moyers knew Trump was not an aberration, but the logical extension of a problem that went back decades," she writes. "Corruption, he wrote me, is 'a condition beyond individual scandals — more a totality of governance, a philosophy that says democracy exists for us to take what we can while we can—to hell with the law, rules, norms and the country. It’s the crime family manifesto of the mafia, affixed to the civic life and public affairs of the nation.'"

How best to honor his integrity, intelligence and commitment to truth and good journalism? "The best — and only — way to pay tribute to him is to go out and do the work," Bauerlein concludes.

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Mother JonesThe Bill Moyers that obituaries missedThe “secular preacher” of TV journalism was also a ferocious critic of corrupt politicians and corporate titans—and the spineless media that enable them.
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Billy Don Moyers (June 5, 1934 – June 26, 2025) was an American journalist and political commentator

i only knew of bill moyers from his interviews with joseph campbell (a tv series and book called “the power of myth”).

thus morning i received an interesting newsletter from mother jones about bill’s legacy, and wanted to share some quotes
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Moyers was acutely aware, sooner than most, that big money was eating away at American democracy. “Ninety-six percent of the people believe it’s important that we reduce the influence of money [in politics],” he said in a 2014 interview. “Yet 91 percent think it’s not likely that its influence will be lessened. Think about that: People know what’s right to do yet don’t think it can or will be done. When the public loses faith in democracy’s ability to solve the problems it has created for itself, the game’s almost over. And I think we are this close to losing democracy to the mercenary class.” He went on to say that “there are people fighting back [and] if it weren’t for them, I would despair. It’s the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there’s still hope.”
“If the watchdog doesn’t bark… how do you know there’s a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog.”

When I was growing up, I never heard anyone pray, “Give me this day my daily bread.” It was always, “Give us this day our daily bread.” That stuck. We’re all in this together. I take “We, the People” seriously because I don’t know how we build a civilization without reciprocity...

news is what’s hidden, everything else is publicity…

Q: We’ve always had an upper class in America. What’s different now?
Moyers: The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories…

One of our two major parties is dominated by extremists dedicated to destroying the social contract and the other party has been so enfeebled by two decades of collaboration with the donor class it can offer only feeble resistance to the forces that are devastating everyday people. Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats — the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms — while the field hands are left with the scraps…

They have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party…

Donald Trump did not come out of nowhere,” Moyers closed. “When he rode into town, it was ripe for plucking.”…

“…a conviction once expressed by Robert La Follette: “Democracy is a life, and requires daily struggle.” If it weren’t for them, I would despair. There’s a scene in Conrad’s The Secret Agent when the anarchist grows despondent over whether even the detonation of a bomb might arouse Londoners: “What if nothing could move them?”

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a link to the 2014 interview

billmoyers.com/2014/05/08/an-i

BillMoyers.com · An Interview With Bill Moyers | BillMoyers.comBill Moyers speaks about his life, his career, LBJ and his views about contemporary journalism and politics.
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"And if we don’t address this, if we don’t get a handle on what we were talking about, money in politics, and find a way to thwart it, tame it, we’re in trouble. Democracy should be a brake on unbridled greed and power. Because capitalism – capital, like a fire, can turn from a servant, a good servant, into an evil master. And democracy is the brake on my passions and my appetites, and your greed and your wealth."

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"Everything public has been under assault since the late 1970s, the early years of the Reagan administration because there is a philosophy that’s been extant in America for a long time, that anything public is less desirable than private. ...

The power of money trumps the power of democracy today, and I’m very worried about it."

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In remembering the irreplaceable and morally grounded journalist who died yesterday, Bill Moyers, Amy Goodman points to an interview she and Juan González did with him in 2011, which focused on his critique of corporate media as corrupt. He said,

"The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today."

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democracynow.org/2025/6/27/rip

Democracy Now! · Bill Moyers Dies at 91: <span class="caps">PBS</span> Icon on Corruption of Corporate Media and Power of Public BroadcastingBy Democracy Now!
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On Thursday, we lost #BillMoyers, whose work illuminated the world and the amazing people in it. Courtesy of @wgbh's American Archive of Public Broadcasting, this video from November of '73 features Moyers chatting with #MayaAngelou, as he did with so many other icons of his time on Thirteen WNET New York's "Bill Moyers Journal" series. The clip captures the thoughtfulness and warmth that he brought into his journalistic work. RIP BM! 🙏

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