I was just thinking about Bill Moyers the other day and about how long it was that I had heard or seen him. He was just great on PBS and other venues, always worth listening to his analysis of politics. Today it was reported that Moyers, 91, had died in Manhattan after a bout with prostate cancer.
He was one person with a background in politics--he was LBJ's press secretary--who went on to have a long and great career in journalism. This death hurts because voices like his are needed in depressing times like we are living in.
As noted in the article, Moyers won an Emmy Award today--the day his death was disclosed--over his documentary about two American families.
Snip:
Accepting the award, filmmaker Tom Casciato said, “I know Bill would want me to mention one thing that we’re not going to lose, that we don’t plan to lose, and that we want to thank. And that’s the only film and television entity in this country that would support a film like this over three decades — and that’s PBS.”
Moyers’ documentaries with FRONTLINE in the 1990s investigated issues including global exports of toxic waste, pesticides and chemicals in America’s food, and the Iran-Contra scandal. The 1990s was also when Moyers, Casciato and filmmaker Kathleen Hughes first began chronicling the lives of two families in Milwaukee, Wisconsin — one Black, the Stanleys, and one white, the Neumanns — fighting to stay afloat in a changing U.S. economy.
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The Roberts/Leo court continues on its insane quest to screw women over.
May the exodus of women from red states increase.
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