Who Says There’s No Good News — ‘Bill Moyers Journal’ Is Finally Off the Air

Bill Moyers Journal has shuffled off the air and into the archives of PBS and the Paley Center for Media. From a story in the Columbia Journalism Review: In 1948, when he was fourteen years old, Bill Moyers heard Lyndon Johnson give a rousing speech at a courthouse in Marshall, Texas. Without a megaphone or a loudspeaker, LBJ mesmerized the crowd.

“I remember the sheer presence of the man,”

Moyers has recalled.

Years later, through a different medium—television—Moyers would achieve a similar kind of power, and routinely abuse it...

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