Bill Moyers

Some snippets:

"Moyers said he has come to understand that 'news is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.'
He said that kind of reporting has never been tougher to do:
'Without a trace of irony, the powers that be have appropriated the news speak vernacular of George Orwell's `1984,' giving us a program, no child will be left behind, while cutting funds for educating disadvantaged children.

'They give us legislation calling for clear skies and healthy forests' while 'turning over public lands to the energy industry.'

Orwell coined "newspeak" and this fits in well with "news speak".

On the recent allegations of "liberal bias" on his PBS show, Moyers said:

Moyers said those in power - government officials and their allies in the media - mean to stay there by punishing journalists "who tell the stories that make princes and priests uncomfortable."
Moyers described those officials as "obsessed with control" of the media. He said they are using the government "to threaten and intimidate."
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Moyers answered for the first time recent charges that public television in general and he in particular have become too liberal.
Those charges are from Kenneth Tomlinson, chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and, in effect, Moyers' boss at the network.
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Moyers said he knew his broadcasts have created a backlash in Washington.
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"The more compelling our journalism, the angrier became the radical right of the Republican Party," he said.
"That's because the one thing they loathe more than liberals is the truth. And the quickest way to be damned by them as liberal is to tell the truth."
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Moyers compared Tomlinson and other conservatives to Richard Nixon, who he said was another president who tried to take control of public television.
'I always knew Nixon would be back,' Moyers said. 'I just didn't know that this time he would ask to be chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.'"

Thanks to cursor.