Bill Moyers
(1934-)

American Broadcast Journalist

birthdate: June 5
birthplace:
Hugo, Oklahoma

QUOTES

"What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does."

“Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.”

“Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don’t go hungry, unschooled or sick without care. Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.”

“I believe democracy requires a ‘sacred contract’ between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works.”

“Free and responsible government by popular consent just can’t exist without an informed public.”

The Interfaith Alliance has to become an ongoing sustaining and powerful movement whose interest is to prove that religion has a healing side as well as a killing side, and that democracy is the consequence of conscience

The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.

an unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical. And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind of orthodoxy can kill us, too.

Some journalists are stubbornly pursuing the truth despite growing monopolies, government secrecy, ideology, and public relations spin doctors—but it’s getting tougher.” A profound transformation is happening. The framers of our nation never imagined what could happen if big government, big publishing, and big broadcasters ever saw eye-to-eye in putting the public need for news second to their own interests—and to the ideology of free-market economies.

The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won. ... The inequality gap is the widest it's been since 1929; the middle class is besieged and the working poor are barely keeping their heads above water.

The right-wing media has become a partisan propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee. We have an ideological press that's interested in the election of Republicans, and a mainstream press that's interested in the bottom line. Therefore, we don't have a vigilant, independent press whose interest is the American people.

 

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