Once again Bill had a great informative show on, if you missed you should watch, trouble is only a small segment of the population will.
Many welcomed the news that he was coming back, myself included. But it isn't just about Bill and how he informs, it's as well the format his shows, and frankly to few others, he was able to bring into the journalism world. The total opposite, but with much much more insight, then can be mustered by our now 24/7 news outlets with the advant of cable.
I still think I got more news and understanding from back in the days of three major channels, the national and local news, the few half hour leading to hour, like 60min, shows and with the public channel PBS. No cable, no 24hours of and if opinion was brought into the formats it wasn't yelling at or talking over each other, point and counterpoint, oh and AM radio was music entertainment and news cuts, then I've ever gotten from cable as it evolved. At first it wasn't so but it quickly morphed into garbage as frankly much of the cable shows with growing bills for those still maintaining while having not much time to even watch the garbage they fill the slots with.
Others have similar formats, some are good, some can be compared to what Moyers does and on the same level, some aren't so good, most aren't found on cable TV, many many are found on this technology, but they are viewed by small fractions of society thus the important messages heard aren't absorbed into the masses like they should be and are ignored by the msm for the most part, thus not a part of the public discussion.
Heather McGhee on the Millennial Generation
“Millennials”, the 80-plus million Americans who were born roughly between 1978 and 2000, are getting hit hard by economic circumstances created over the past 30 years. They may be the first generation of Americans who cannot count on doing better than their parents. How have these realities affected their outlook? And how will it impact Barack Obama’s future? Millennials turned out for him by huge margins in 2008, but their enthusiasm has waned. In this Moyers & Company segment, Bill Moyers talks with a Millennial who has dedicated herself to tackling these issues. At 31, Heather McGhee directs the Washington office of the research and advocacy group Demos, and is fighting for financial reforms and consumer protection. read more>>> * * Full Transcript
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Bruce Bartlett on Where the Right Went Wrong
In this Moyers & Company segment, Bill Moyers talks with conservative economist Bruce Bartlett, who wrote “the bible” for the Reagan Revolution, worked on domestic policy for the Reagan White House, and served as a top treasury official under the first President Bush. Now he’s a heretic in the conservative circles where he once was a star.
Bartlett argues that right-wing tax policies — pushed in part by Grover Norquist and Tea Party activists — are destroying the country’s economic foundation. When he called George W. Bush out as “a pretend conservative” in his book "Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy", Bartlett was fired from his position as a senior fellow at a conservative think tank. His new book is "The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform-Why We Need It and What It Will Take". read more>>> * * Full Transcript
Bruce Bartlett on Where the Right Went Wrong from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.
Bill Moyers Essay: Who Shipwrecked Our Economy?">
Is our economy a sinking ship, and who’s steering it in that direction? Bill’s essay looks at owners and manipulators of capital, whose wealth has become a ” demonic force in politics” — unstoppable by the law, scrutiny, or decency. Yet all hope is not lost; Bill points out some ways to start patching the boat. Full Transcript
Bill Moyers Essay: Who Shipwrecked Our Economy? from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.