Remembering Bill Moyers: PBS Icon on Corruption of Corporate Media and Power of Public Broadcasting

[Uncle Joe]

The legendary journalist Bill Moyers died in June at the age of 91. Moyers, whose long career included helping found the Peace Corps and serving as press secretary for President Lyndon Johnson, was an award-winning champion of public television and independent media.

[choie]

1. What a lovely msn

And a great American. Would that there’d be someone like him today or in the future.

[progressoid]

2. REC!

This is so frustrating. The vast right wing corporate media has brainwashed tens of millions of Americans that PBS is the problem.

Meanwhile, the real problem is the very thing they watch/listen to every day - sometimes all day long.

[MustLoveBeagles]

3. Kick

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[2naSalit]

4. Sure do miss him!

I used to watch him regularly back in the day.

[Amaryllis]

5. He did one called The Public Mind: Image and Realitly in America that is excellelnt.

https://billmoyers.com/series/public-mind-1989/
He starts off with advertising and moves into politics, elections, etc. and how all that increasingly serves interests other than the public.

Media
Consuming Images
November 8, 1989 | The Public Mind
Bill Moyers interviews communications experts about how the power of visual imagery in advertising challenges shapes the way people view the world and themselves.

Media
Leading Questions
November 15, 1989 | The Public Mind
Bill Moyers examines the power of professional pollsters to influence public opinion.

Media
Illusions of News
November 22, 1989 | The Public Mind
Bill Moyers investigates the power of visuals on news, politics and elections and explores how news organizations
increasingly serve the interests of politicians, rather than the general public.

The Truth About Lies
November 29, 1989 | The Public Mind
Bill Moyers examines how deception has influenced some of the major events of our recent past and how self-deception shapes our personal lives and the public mind.