Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
BILL MOYERSJournalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
BILL MOYERSTelevision can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.
BILL MOYERSPeople who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
BILL MOYERSI hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.
BILL MOYERSThe thing about war is that once it’s triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.
BILL MOYERSDemocracy doesn’t begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls ‘The Patriot’s Dream.
BILL MOYERSThose rules divide the world into Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.
BILL MOYERSCharity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table.
BILL MOYERSI report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit.
BILL MOYERSWhy is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.
BILL MOYERSRockefeller was born to it, and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just another day’s work… In the world of David Rockefeller it’s hard to tell where business ends and politics begins
BILL MOYERSJournalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
BILL MOYERSOur very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
BILL MOYERSThe President may not be listening, but the Senate is, and the public won this round. The House has a similar resolution under consideration.
BILL MOYERSUnless you’re willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you’ve got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there’s no use even trying.
BILL MOYERSThe struggle of ordinary people for a decent living, for security, is as old as the republic, but it’s taken on a new and urgent edge. Instead of shared prosperity our political system has now produced a winner-take-all economy.
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