PBS News Guru Moyers Blasts Fox News

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Former Lyndon Johnson Press Spokesman Bill Moyers attacks Rupert Murdoch, Fox News Channel in PBS commentary.

June 29, 2007 at 3:43 pm - YouTube
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Jack Valenti   June 29th, 2007 - 4:05 pm

Bill Moyers is a hack. He is a liberal “journalist” who cut his teeth while working in liberal administrations.

He has no credibility. He poses as an objective journalist but no one takes him seriously.

Bill Moyers = joke, on a crying jag.

Red Hathcock   June 29th, 2007 - 4:06 pm

Do I detect a hint of envy!

Tom Johnson   June 29th, 2007 - 4:08 pm

The Jimmy Carter of TV

Denmac   June 29th, 2007 - 4:16 pm

As long as we’re allowing Moyers to perform unchecked character assassination –

“According to Laurence H. Silberman—who examined J. Edgar Hoover’s secret files upon their discovery in 1974— Moyers, in his capacity as chief of staff, directed Hoover to have the FBI investigate Barry Goldwater’s staff to find similar evidence of homosexual activity, to be used in case Goldwater brought up Jenkins’s arrest as a campaign issue.

According to Silberman, Moyers at first claimed that the memo was a forgery, but then admitted to him that it was genuine.

In the summer of 2002, Moyers was arrested and charged in Vermont with driving under the influence of alcohol. He later pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of negligent driving and was fined $750, ordered to take a drunken driving course, and given a choice of paying $1,000 to an anti-drunk-driving group, or doing 200 hours of community service. His attorney indicated that Moyers would make the $1,000 donation.”

DAN   June 29th, 2007 - 4:18 pm

I’m so glad Bill Moyers got a chance to speak to his gumby liberal audience. His mumbo-jumbo has little to do with a businessman trying to buy a business. Of course, Bill and his like would rather all media be of their particular slant.
And that’s what it’s all about: Bill is angry because their are media dedicated to reporting the news and not making it!!!!!!!

Raw Cuss   June 29th, 2007 - 4:19 pm

Interesting how Moyers’ calm survey of the obvious (to all but the ideologically blinded)is presented as an “attack” and as “blasting” Murdoch, who is in fact as eminently blastable a public target as that blonde Hilton thing ever was…

Bob Vincent   June 29th, 2007 - 4:25 pm

He honestly believes that CBS, NBC, NPR, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, BBC, ABC, The NY Times, The Wall Street Journal is unbiased. When you hang out so far out on the left that moderates seem like right wing neocons, you need a reality check.

Sean Gregory   June 29th, 2007 - 4:27 pm

One of the reasons for the success of Foxnews is that it counterbalances the leftist propaganda of PBS. PBS is a joke and can’t be taken seriously.

bruce   June 29th, 2007 - 4:29 pm

Sour grapes by a lefty hack. Moyer is obviously jealous that Fox outdraws viewers of PBS by ridiculous percentages. Who cares what this insignificant little man has to say, anyway?

Habib   June 29th, 2007 - 4:31 pm

I am a recent immigrant to the US, and feel he has a right to bemoan and degrade those who he disagrees with. He may sound like a whiney hypocrite, but here we have freedoms you can find nowhere else in the world. Stay open minded.

Tom Scott   June 29th, 2007 - 4:32 pm

I quit watching Mr. Moyers some yars ago after finding out for myself that this evil organization FOX NEWS actually gives me two sides of the story. Everything I just heard from Mr. Moyers sounded like he was actually describing himself. And am I to believe he has no bias??

Bob Vincent   June 29th, 2007 - 4:32 pm

What!

ted G.   June 29th, 2007 - 4:32 pm

Moyers is a stupid jerk that, like many liberals, does not understand what motivates human beings. Something for nothing is the worst motivator. Liberals monopolize PBS and have a strong voice because they don’t have to make a profit. If they did they would fail and other liberals radio people have done. Who would pay for this garbage except the government. Conservatives should get equal time on PBS.

Tom Scott   June 29th, 2007 - 4:33 pm

I quit watching Mr. Moyers some years ago after finding out for myself that this evil organization FOX NEWS actually gives me two sides of the story. Everything I just heard from Mr. Moyers sounded like he was actually describing himself. And am I to believe he has no bias??

Richard Zoppo   June 29th, 2007 - 4:33 pm

Conservatives will stop the redistribution of wealth, end welfare, restore the family unit, and get communist propagandists like Bill Moyers off our TV sets. Murdoch knows that reporters are supposed to tell you what happens, not twist stories to tell you what they want to happen like the NYT and “All the news that’s fit to invent”.

Bob Vincent   June 29th, 2007 - 4:36 pm

He has the right to bemoan and degrade those who disagree with him. He may sound like a whiney hypocrite, but that is the foundation of free speech. Let all have their say, whether you agree with them or not.

JP Vanderbilt   June 29th, 2007 - 4:37 pm

Moyers is a stupid old fool, and he’s frustrated that Murdoch is not a lover of socialism (as are most journalists).

Bob Vincent   June 29th, 2007 - 4:42 pm

Why must someone who considers himself to be such a “professional journalist” resort to low level, hate rooted, divisive personal attacks, just because someone else doesn’t subscribe to their personal dogma. Further proof why journalists across the board are losing the peoples respect for them. This guy Moyer is a journalistic fraud for such acts as these.

Skippy   June 29th, 2007 - 4:42 pm

Interesting…

Bill O’Reilly or Savage or Coulter says things multitudes worse than this in any given day, without the even tone or good grammer. This is not a tirade. It’s analysis.

I hate to tell you, but Bill Moyers is an honest to God American icon. O’Reilly isn’t fit to lick the soles of his shoes.

Murdoch is in it solely for the money and the power. It’s just a bonus that you folks actually believe the baloney he sells.

Get a grip folks…

Skippy   June 29th, 2007 - 4:44 pm

Actually, I was just kidding about my previous comments. Moyer really is a hypocrite.

Mel Kerner   June 29th, 2007 - 4:45 pm

Pretty arrogant, considering he’s a guy who has made a living sucking the life out of the American taxpayer instead of actually producing something on his own with his own money, incurring any risk whatsoever. He is and always has been an “empty suited blowhard” in my opinion.

Skippy   June 29th, 2007 - 4:46 pm

Wow!

Natalie   June 29th, 2007 - 4:54 pm

Moyers…..Moyers….the name sounds familiar.

tanstaafl   June 29th, 2007 - 4:55 pm

Bill Moyers bashing Foxnews while conveniently avoiding the egregious and longstanding left-leaning bias of “network” news over the decades is just a little hard to take.

Sanctimonious anyone ?

Altho’ I’ll say Murdoch offering the Bancrofts something like $60 for $30 something WSJ stock is also egregious.

Time to find another planet.

w.miller   June 29th, 2007 - 4:55 pm

If there ever was a “sellout” to honest,unbiased and fairly balanced journalism, it’s Bill Moyer. Moyer should best be remembered as Lyndon Johnson’s lap dog White House spokesman during the Vietnam war. Moyer and PBS are the perfect match for tirades of liberal propoganda!

george davis   June 29th, 2007 - 4:55 pm

Moyer’s is a bitter, old liberal who’s obviously green with envy…

Loser.

micky   June 29th, 2007 - 4:57 pm

Pls Mr Moyer get off your high horse and smell the flowers. you almost sound with envy?
your disdain is almost sour.

MT Analyst   June 29th, 2007 - 4:58 pm

This from Moyer and PBS- the network who edited out portions of “America at a Crossroad” because it didn’t match their agenda…nobody forces us to pay for Fox News- but we all pay for PBS.

JMac   June 29th, 2007 - 4:59 pm

PBS doing what they do best – perfecting liberal spin by passing ad hominem attacks and personal opinions as matter-of-fact statements. There are much better uses of tax dollars in my opinion.

Edward Moore   June 29th, 2007 - 5:00 pm

Bill Moyers is so far gone over the left-edge he doesn’t even sense his own free-fall…I doubt he ever will. Liberty loving Americans of the Republic must come to understand that Moyers represents the lost-mind of the left…their next step left as they reach being fully rejected will an effort at Stalinist control I am sure.

Lee Cary   June 29th, 2007 - 5:02 pm

Was Bill sober when he taped this?

Denmac   June 29th, 2007 - 5:02 pm

Is Moyers actually expecting us to believe that PBS is not 90deg left of center? That his organization doesnt use the news to promote a leftist agenda? Another self-righteous speech comes to mind where another character sat in front of us and said, …it depends on what the definition of is..is.
Does this guy actually think we believe anything he says? Does he think we dont see right through his blathering to the agenda that he presents on his networks?

Bert   June 29th, 2007 - 5:05 pm

Bill Moyer is the hieght of hypocracy. He spews his liberal bile on a taxpayer funded network that would’nt make it a week in the free market.
What Bill, now you don’t like the commies? Look in the mirror.

P J Larson   June 29th, 2007 - 5:05 pm

Bill doesn’t seem to believe in differences of opinion. If he doesn’t agree with you, you become the boogyman who’s out to destroy America.

Dan Clem   June 29th, 2007 - 5:09 pm

Good editorial, if it came from someone with a bit of ethics.

Ryan   June 29th, 2007 - 5:09 pm

Another scathing personal attack from the one of the fringe left’s favorite “journalist”. Bill Moyers is the last person on this planet to be concerned about someone trying to inject political bias into news, that after all is what he does everyday, including this attack.

Stephen Hill   June 29th, 2007 - 5:13 pm

Bill,
At the end of your recent comments about Mr. Murdoch, I am sure you meant to say thank you to me, and all the other taxpayers whose money is taken from them to help underwite PBS so you could tell us how evil you think Mr. Murdoch is.

Come on Bill, be a man, have enough courage like Mr. Murdoch and buy your own news network and newspaper and use your own paycheck, and stop relying on private contributions and public funds to pontificate with.

Skippy   June 29th, 2007 - 5:15 pm

Moyers is allowed to bemoan and degrade those who disagree with him. It’s a first amendment right. He may be a whiney hypocrite living an affluent lifestyle off our taxdollars, but what liberal of consertaive politician isn’t. Free speech rules!!!

derico   June 29th, 2007 - 5:17 pm

Moyers is allowed to bemoan and degrade those who disagree with him. It’s a first amendment right. He may be a whiney hypocrite living an affluent lifestyle off our taxdollars, but what liberal of consertaive politician isn’t. Free speech rules!!!

burel   June 29th, 2007 - 5:18 pm

Moyers is a commentator, Murdoch is a buyer of media. The wrath expressed here against Moyers seems odd because Murdoch is buying up the media outlets for no other reason than to control what we, the public, think.

So given the vitriol expressed here against Moyers I must guess that most of the posters here favor a media giant controlling what we know. All Moyers was doing was expressing an opinion and the majority here responded as Murdoch would have wanted.

Most of you believe Moyers is washed up. But Murdoch, a very powerful man has your full allegiance. No problem. Because in the future you will have to keep your opinions to yourself, because that’s the kind of world you want and you are well suited for it.

DJH   June 29th, 2007 - 5:20 pm

Ahhh, yes. The objective Mr. Moyers. Always fighting to dispense truth and preserve the high morals of journalistic integrity.

The man is a buffoon and there’s a good reason he has very little credibility outside of the left.

M. Summer   June 29th, 2007 - 5:21 pm

I suppose you think Soros is just wonderful!? Right? At least Murdock is not trying to destroy America with his billions like Soros is. Do a little research, Moyers, before you complain about Murdock. Look at what Soros is doing – God help us.

Chris A.   June 29th, 2007 - 5:23 pm

It’s so funny to see and hear these people. You would think he was looking in the mirror. They fear the truth and you and I know the truth.

No More Al Gore!!!

Danforth Worthington   June 29th, 2007 - 5:24 pm

The truth has a liberal slant.

James Curfman   June 29th, 2007 - 5:25 pm

Thank you, Bill Moyers.
You have given me one more reason
to conveniently forget to make that
pledge to my local PBS station that
I’ve been meaning to phone in!

W. McKillop   June 29th, 2007 - 5:25 pm

It is ridiculous for Bill Moyers to attack Rupert Murdoch. Moyers is one of the most corrupt and insidious commentators on television. People such as Moyers hate it when conservative views are presented rather than the one-sided propaganda of the liberal left. Fox News talk shows are interesting because they allow opposing opinions to be heard. This is not the case with Moyers. Moyers gets a free-ride on PBS, subsidized by taxpayers. Murdoch companies, without taxpayer subsidies, compete openly in the media market.

Art A.   June 29th, 2007 - 5:27 pm

Who the hell would or could by out a station supported by taxpayers? This guy is a joke!
Art

Mike H   June 29th, 2007 - 5:27 pm

The reason I quit giving money to PBS is Moyers…last few times they called me for a donation I told them the instant they get rid of Moyers I will start giving again, lady said “wow you are like the 20th person to tell me that today” I wonder how much more they could collect if they got back to the center politically and dumped this ilk.

mike   June 29th, 2007 - 5:28 pm

Bill Moyers is a left wing butt hole.

Sally Mims   June 29th, 2007 - 5:29 pm

Oh, my, my!!!! Bill Moyers was a liar you are!
Tell us about your money you receive from the public for telling your lies.

Mitch   June 29th, 2007 - 5:30 pm

This Moyers fellow would just love the Fairness Doctrine being brought back. I see rain on his parade, and PBS too. My tax dollars go to support this? PBS is commercial tv, and should not receive another dime in tax money. Like Talk Radio, let his viewers/listeners support it. Unless Soros jumped in to support him, he would be gone in a week.

Sally Mims   June 29th, 2007 - 5:31 pm

Oh, my, my!!!! Bill Moyers what a liar you are!
Tell us about your money you receive from the public for telling your lies.

Robko   June 29th, 2007 - 5:32 pm

Repubicans have been in control for over 6 years — what have they accomplished? Getting us into an unwinnable war, out of control spending, & an economy that stinks.

But I suppose that’s the liberal media’s fault.

Republicans = tax and spend party

bill   June 29th, 2007 - 5:32 pm

Not a single word about George Soros! Who does Moyers think he is kidding? Fortunately Moyers is in the dustbin where he belongs along with Carter, Rather, Kerry, Gore….ect. ect.

Fallout911   June 29th, 2007 - 5:35 pm

He’s absolutely right.

dev   June 29th, 2007 - 5:36 pm

bill moyers is a leftist partisan hack! If he were any more slanted, his viewers would have to lay their televisions on their sides!

GREG GRAHAM   June 29th, 2007 - 5:38 pm

I just can’t believe we pay this guys salary. He just another hate america first socialist, who is afraid of a free market economy,just like most democrate politicians….. and this is to BUREL!
Did you ever hear of the “FAIRNESS DOCTRINE”, this
is goverment censorship! Im sure Moyers will push
that next. Stop drinking the KOLL AID and wise up.

rals   June 29th, 2007 - 5:40 pm

Murdoch is not buying media to control what we think. Funny, I thought he was buying media properties in order to turn a profit. That brings me to Moyers’s laugh-out-loud line which expresses near shock that our financial markets are motivated by, get this, money. Can you believe it?
Newspapers have always been bought and sold. They have always been businesses. So have other media properties. Moyers’s and his ilk like to pretend Murdoch is spoiling some lilly-white journalistic nirvana, yet this is the way it has always been.

Journalism has done its own damage, whether through plagiarism scandals, exposed lies, or agenda-driven news or plain liberalism posing as objective reporting.

Newspapers and journalism historically has had varying standards of objectivity. Who cares if Murdoch has an agenda? So do other outlets and there are plenty of other points of view.

This is what bothers Moyers’s — a potential shift in media power — that some dare have a significant voice with an alternative perspective He has nothing to fear, and if he is serious, perhaps he ought to take over CNN or build his own network or newspaper from scratch to fill the vacuum. The people and the market will reward him! That, however, would be a lot tougher than striking a morally superior pose during ill-informed commentaries on the taxpayers dime.

The biggest joke is when something like the NYTimes or, yes, PBS pretends to be objective. The case of the NYTimes is particularly sad. It used to be a great newspaper with wonderful writing and reporting. It is now tranparently agenda-driven and riddled with editing errors.

Robert   June 29th, 2007 - 5:41 pm

LOL, You have got to be kidding me. It’s a free market Bill, If people don’t like what they hear on FOX, or read in the WSJ, they can always tune in to PBS, or pick up the NYT. If I were you, I would be afraid of falling ratings more than Rupert Murdoch buying you out. Why do liberals want to so desperately shut down any opposing views from their own? Let the market sort it out, just as it did with Air America.

bill   June 29th, 2007 - 5:41 pm

Also no mention of corporate ownership of C&BS, NBC ot ABC. Moyer’s bias is so transparent, yet even after a diatribe like this latest, he will turn around and argue that he and PBS are “objective”….headshake.

JC Burcham   June 29th, 2007 - 5:41 pm

Wow there is nothing better than a socialist with his tail between his legs realizing how completely his a** has been kicked by a CAPITALIST! Keep up the good work Rupert!

Mitch   June 29th, 2007 - 5:42 pm

If the Fairness Doctrine came back, Moyers would have a cow. PBS is supported with tax money. PBS is a commercial tv network, and I say let his viewers support it, just like those who listen to talk radio.

Bill Moyer's Evil Twin   June 29th, 2007 - 5:42 pm

Anyone ever wonder why our government still finances the old “shell of what they once were” institutions like PBS and the NEA? They’ve become so irrelevant in these days of cable TV and the internet. All they seem to have anymore is old hacks like Bill. Speaking of dried up angry old has-beens, was Cronkite too busy?

Elgin   June 29th, 2007 - 5:43 pm

Mr Moyers should know better at this age. You don’t cast stones in glass houses. And the dumbing down of America goes on.

DJH   June 29th, 2007 - 5:44 pm

Burel – Speak for yourself. Murdoch doesn’t control what I think, see or hear nor do I rely him or anyone of his news agencies to form my opinions.

The anymosity toward the hypocritical Moyers is well deserved, for anyone who is actually interested in truth and not the liberal idea of truth.

Stanley Buie   June 29th, 2007 - 5:45 pm

Very accurate commentary by Moyers here. Media is indeed supposed to be a watchdog/critic of governmental and corporate power centers. To above posters who say Fox News “presents both sides of the story”, surely you are on crack. Guess you’ve forgotten the cheerleading of glassy-eyed Fox commentators when the Iraq War started, blabbering moronically from Pentagon/White House talking points about “shock and awe” and such. They (Fox)have as much right-bias (perhaps even more) as CBS/NBC and others themselves demonstrate left-bias. In part, though, this is because this is what the people want. They want news that reflects their world view first, and facts and analysis second. Today, getting unbiased raw news is very difficult, perhaps only the internet offers such fare.

Mitch   June 29th, 2007 - 5:45 pm

Whats the deal! Why are my comments disappearing from this site? What kind of censorship is this!

Roseanne   June 29th, 2007 - 5:46 pm

IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT AND THE VICE PRESIDENT, THEY ARE TRAITORS TO AMERICA, AND SO ARE ALL OF THEIR SUPPORTERS. IMPEACH! ANYONE IN CONGRESS WHO REFUSES TO SAVE OUR UNION FROM THESE TRAITORS BY DOING NOTHING NEEDS TO BE RECALLED. SAVE OUR TROOPS!!! SAVE OUR SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS AND JOBS. FEED OUR HUNGRY AND POOR! SAVE THE DROWNING PEOPLE IN NEW ORLEANS! ANYONE WHO MENTIONS PARIS HILTON ONE MORE TIME MUST DIE!

vbw   June 29th, 2007 - 5:53 pm

This Moyers is pure slime. He has made a fortune ripping off the public siphoning from the PBS trough and spewing his sanctimonious socialist/elitist tripe. It is because of his ilk that Murdoch has been so successful. Thank goodness for Murdoch doing all he does to defeat this elitist socialist poison. Moyer’s type leads to totalitarian tyranny.

Arminius   June 29th, 2007 - 5:53 pm

Moyers is nothing more than a Democrat Party hitman. He is no journalist. He has been doing this dirty work for more than 40 years. See http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110006987

San   June 29th, 2007 - 5:58 pm

Let’s buy him out! Bill Moyers is the wort example of elitist “journalist” and we have to pay for this crap! Get rid of this guy ASAP he is what is wrong with America, he hates America, normal Americans and is a socialist with a dangerous agenda.

Robko   June 29th, 2007 - 5:58 pm

Big difference between Moyers and Murdoch: Murdoch operates in the free market. Moyers is taxpayer funded.

Murdoch doesn’t have my full allegiance but the free market does have my allegiance. If you believe Murdoch owning media outlets means we have to keep opinions to ourselves, you are quite simply wrong and paranoid.

Karenina   June 29th, 2007 - 6:01 pm

Stanley Buie says:

“Guess you’ve forgotten the cheerleading of glassy-eyed Fox commentators when the Iraq War started, blabbering moronically from Pentagon/White House talking points about “shock and awe” and such.”

Funny! I read plenty of liberal websites and from your ilk says, it was ALL media that was “glassy-eyed” when the Iraq War started.

Guess you missed those talking points.

Get with it man! The new talking point is the fairness doctrine needs to be brought back. Fox is old news. Talk radio, that’s what the libs are talking about today!

Jimbo   June 29th, 2007 - 6:01 pm

Moyers is just another cry baby Dem.

Houtan   June 29th, 2007 - 6:02 pm

Thank you Mr. Moyers for informing the public of the dangers villain M. poses to independent journalism and news.

It is sad to read the negative comments about your opinion, however funny that these individuals can’t spell to save their lives.

Not to mention some of these comments are posted twice, hmmmm…. I wonder why!

Battle lines have been drawn for some time now and I am comforted and empowered to know what side you are on.

Darel   June 29th, 2007 - 6:08 pm

Bill Moyers needs to listen to his own words very carefully. He has just explained to us why some print media owners are bailing, why the public is turning to other media sources for information which they deem more trustworthy, and is at a loss to explain how any listener could choose a Fox medium over the totally “pure, honorable and unbiased” media such as PBS and the WSJ, NYT or whatever.

What he really doesn’t get is that people are choosing to listen to a particular radio or tv station or buy a particular newspaper. If there wasn’t a market for Murdoch’s products, he wouldn’t have all this money to expand. Simple supply and demand.

e.w.   June 29th, 2007 - 6:15 pm

Here’s a man who lives off of the taxpayer critizing somebody who made it in the marketplace. Moyers should be ashamed of himself.

Terry L. Walker   June 29th, 2007 - 6:25 pm

Poor old Bill. He can’t forget that he once had something of an important position. But, remember that was under Lyndon Johnson 40 years ago. And anyone who knows about the way Lyndon Johnson operated knows that those who had major positions in his administration were continually bullied and had to kowtow to Johnson. And, generally, to carry out a certain amount of political dirty work for him. Is Mr. Moyers as much the “clean hands” critic as he would have us think–or did he do a lot of sucking up to Lyndon Johnson to get and retain his job? I’ll give you a guess which it was.

But, one of the posters is right. Nobody takes Bill Moyers seriously anymore, and haven’t for years.

And someone working for PBS attacking FOX News for its content? Pleeeaase! PBS is a lefty rathole down which public money goes. It only still exists because there have been few or no Republicans with the guts to ax it.

Mr. Moyers the objective commentator or Mr. Moyers the lefty shill on PBS who takes himself far more seriously than anyone else does? You decide.

burel   June 29th, 2007 - 6:39 pm

If Bill Moyers is the issue that stopped you from contributing to NPR then how much are you spending for cable and tabloid access to Murdock? Murdock is without sin, Moyers dropped the bomb on Hiroshima?

I don’t agree completely with any news outlet. However, I do seek balance in reporting. If the $bottom$$line$ is the standard of reporting news then how can you not ask if you have heard the truth? How can you condemn Moyers for an opinion when Murdock is buying up the access to truth? One source relies on contributions and the other on profit. The one relying on contributions is apparently offering an honest opinion. The one motivated by profit is poking a stick at the dogs. Lots of $$$$ in anger, few $ in reason.

George Williams   June 29th, 2007 - 6:43 pm

Will someone please block the IP addresses of the three Fox News employees who are littering the comment section here with Murdoch propaganda?

Stephen   June 29th, 2007 - 6:45 pm

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb

Hakon   June 29th, 2007 - 6:52 pm

All those years of leeching off public funds, yet Moyers still cannot afford a jacket. Only an “enterprise” like PBS with wildly popular Sesame Street would still require public funding.

DS   June 29th, 2007 - 6:54 pm

A wonderfully written polemic. Would that he would turn his pen on the NEW YORK TIMES!

Techaroo   June 29th, 2007 - 6:55 pm

The high pitched squeal of conservative media’s momentum is causing the liberal elites to squirm and beg for “fairness”. Too late. Radio and New Media have already jumped into your sandbox.

Bill Smith   June 29th, 2007 - 7:02 pm

My question to Moyers is, “Why not ONE word about George Soros?” Leave Rupert alone!! God bless Fox News, and God bless America. PBS is not PUBLIC broadcasting!! You should see the “Taj Mahal” of a new building WGBH has just constructed in Boston with OUR tax money!!!!

Carl   June 29th, 2007 - 7:03 pm

Consider the content and tone of the remarks – not one fact, not one statistic — only emotion and anger. This is standard liberal speak – appeal to emotions not logic. Cry with your audience. I feel your pain. Big nasty white guys run the world. And last but not least – rebel against “The Man” who is evil and secretly runs the world.

And he has the courage to accuse Fox News of doing no reporting. This entire diatribe probably took 15 minutes to write – no facts, no figures – just emotion and repeating the mantra of the 60’s.

Truth   June 29th, 2007 - 7:03 pm

It’s kind of strange that almost every comment posted on here about Bill Moyer’s editorial about Ruppert Murdoch sounds like it was written by the same person.

Is it possible that breitbart.tv run by Andrew Breitbart, a conservative commentator, is up to no good himself?

Moyer’s is a good man, it’s a shame a website like this and the cronies or should I say one cronie who is paid to write comments acting as though they are general populous, don’t realize that Moyers is right and he wants diversity in journalism so that the truth isn’t controlled by a few.

Unbelievable!

Brad in AZ   June 29th, 2007 - 7:10 pm

We really need to yank funding for these insidious PBS(CPB) shows. They should be forced to to go it alone to deterimine if they have the following to keep their shops running (Air America didn’t :-) .

I still feel shows like Nature, American Experience, Austin City Limits etc, have value… But no more news magazine/expose shows. It is a sad irony that in my youth I considered myself liberal… What killed it? Waking up every morning to the NPR broadcast, a Moyers episode or Frontline — all of them really. It’s sad we would have to fight and organize and lobby to get this stuff nixed…

What do you folks think? Isn’t time we stood up and said “No more”?

McGuire   June 29th, 2007 - 7:15 pm

Amazing, how many of you got all your fatcs wrong, could it be you watch too much Fox.
Moyers programs do not get a penny of tax payers money, they are totally funded by individuals, corporations or fundations.
Reporting is what he does – reason why he has gained a reputation for fair, banlanced and innovative reporting, laying out the facts is reporting, Murdoch NewsCorp is propaganda that attracts many including the mindless, factless parrots and other.

Leroy   June 29th, 2007 - 7:27 pm

I guess Bill has the right to say what he wants. But I think he’s forgotten that our taxes pay for his airtime to exercise that right. He’s anti-capitalism and with the Johnson Administration was part of the failed “War on Poverty” that has cost a lot more than Iraq, created fatherless homes, high crime and gang activity, more prisons, high unemployment all the while trying to keep me and mine on the government plantation.

GREG   June 29th, 2007 - 7:47 pm

RIP A GUY WHO ACTUALLY RELIES ON VIEWERS FOR INCOME!

Tom   June 29th, 2007 - 7:53 pm

On Moyers:

one word old man — “marketshare”.

Rupert Murdoch has mastered that idea where the old world has not embraced.

the liberal journalists are quaking in their shoes…

John   June 29th, 2007 - 8:00 pm

Moyers claims that Fox News is biased and doesn’t do any real journalism. But Moyers ignores his own left wing bias. Why is Moyers allowed to show bias on the left yet Murdoch isn’t allowed to show bias on the right?

butch   June 29th, 2007 - 8:01 pm

I thought Newt nixed funding to PBS years ago, but if the bugaboo keeps you believing that your tax dollars are still funding PBS and NP….hey, no problem on my part with your fairy tale. Do you know funding was cut some time ago, if not completely then significantly.

Facts are important when dealing with the truth. Does anyone on this forum know how much Bill Moyers received for his efforts as presented here? Too Bad BM can’t be like Bill O’Reilly. Now that’s a well paid fellow with a well padded line. Top’O’ the Mornin’ to ya, you liberal slimeball! Ya doan think like me and ya say things I doan unnerstan, bejesus, but I respect yer right ta say it, ya liberal scum!

David Young   June 29th, 2007 - 8:12 pm

The most startling thing to me was how much I agreed with Mr. Moyers. Too bad it was he who was saying it, since he’s one of the worst examples of the junk journalism he complains of.

Rupert Murdoch has been sensasionalizing the news from day one. Bill Moyers has been presenting distorted and biased “news” almost as long.

Which is blacker, the pot or the kettle?

Celeb   June 29th, 2007 - 8:13 pm

Who anointed Moyers a “guru” of anything but outlandishly self-immolating opinions that only other fools would accept???

AmericanMark   June 29th, 2007 - 8:23 pm

Fox is in the free market and has to compete. Moyers and his buddies at PBS have the freedom to pontificate, condesend, and sneer all day long. They are on the public tit. In the free market, this sweater-wearing commie would go out in flames – kind of like AirAmerica.

Eagle in NYC   June 29th, 2007 - 8:39 pm

Pathetic little ideologue. And we PAY for his ad hominem drivel. No facts, no evidence, just slander and innuendo.

He’s a far-left political hack who can’t make it in the real world of commercial television, so he depends on our tax dollars to spew hateful accusations that would be more accurately leveled at himself and all the other leftist media outlets like CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS, plus the vast majority of newspapers and newsmagazines. But NOT Fox News who have the unmitigating gall – in the fevered mind of Moyers – to PERMIT conservatives to have air time. The other outlets on the other hand permit ONLY the liberal received reality.

He was the political mouthpiece for the idiot who brought us Vietnam AND the ongoing multi-trillion dollar “War on Poverty” and he’s STILL just a political mouthpiece.

The BBC finally admitted, through an independent audit, that they are far-left, and the chairman of PBS tried to bring a modicum of balance to the far-left bias at that network, only to be “Wolfowitzed” by the entrenched, liberal PBS bureaucracy that refused to air differing viewpoints. (See “Banned by PBS: Moderate Muslims against jihad” that has been aired on the only news television network worth watching: Fox News.)

AlanD   June 29th, 2007 - 8:53 pm

Moyers will defend to the end a liberal’s right to spew their side but god forbid a conservative try’s to give their point of view. In his mind he and PBS (Stands for pure bs) is unbiased, what a insignificant and ridiculous man. 10 to 1 he is for reinstating the “fairness doctrine” or double speak for censorship of anti socialist/liberal ideas.

AlanD   June 29th, 2007 - 8:54 pm

Great post AmericanMark

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