Bill Moyers, a former press secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson who turned into a longtime broadcast journalist and champion of public media, has died at age 91, his family confirmed to CNN.
Moyers, who was once described by Walter Cronkite as “the conscience” of the country, was a public television pioneer, leading multiple installments of “Bill Moyers’ Journal” on PBS stations in the 1970s and again in the late 2000s.
Moyers, who was once described by Walter Cronkite as “the conscience” of the country, was a public television pioneer, leading multiple installments of “Bill Moyers’ Journal” on PBS stations in the 1970s and again in the late 2000s.
I won't pretend to make you nice people think I spent a lot of time watching his eponymous (thank you R.E.M.!) show, but I will always be #TeamMoyers for Two American Families, which I mentioned again last year when Moyers presented its (presumably now) final update. I highly recommend everybody watch this incredible documentary; frustrating & heartbreaking and, even more so 30+ years later, still so frustrating & heartbreaking in its always-timely relevance.
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