Trying to explain why Need to Know, the PBS public affairs show that appeared in the Friday night timeslot vacated by Bill Moyers Journal and Now, has gotten such a cool reception from viewers, co-host Allison Stewart seems to blame nostalgia. “Obviously you can’t replace Bill Moyers,” says Stewart (Show Tracker, 8/5/10). “That’s just a ridiculous notion.”
The funny thing is, Bill Moyers was replaced: When he left Now to resume doing Bill Moyers Journal, David Brancaccio took over as host, later joined by Maria Hinojosa. Under their tenure, Now retained its loyal following, because Brancaccio and Hinojosa were pursuing the same kind of independent investigative journalism that Moyers had aspired to—the kind of programming that PBS was created to air because it’s unlikely to be produced by commercial networks.
If those same viewers find Need to Know lacking, it’s not because Stewart and co-host Jon Meacham aren’t Moyers—it’s because they don’t understand the journalistic values that Moyers represented.
AGREED!
I certainly miss in depth Journalism. What is David Brancoccio doing now and also Maria Hinojosa?
They were excellent and we want to hear from them.
Well, Duh.
I really miss both shows.
Our entire household misses Moyers, Brancaccio and Hinojosa very much. Stewart and Meacham appear to be lost in space – almost as if they never watched the very people they replaced. I see a change coming within the next six months and I hope Brancaccio and Hinojosa return.
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all the news that’s fit to be controlled and avoided! how lucky are you to be informed by these clowns?!!!!
direct from demon central and sanitized for their protection and you being conned and duped. its the
american way! when the government fears the people you have democracy. when the people fear the
government we have— now! theres a seat for every ass and a ass for every seat. thats my slogan folks
but you can borrow it if you like be my guest. when you live in the usa you can use it at least 5 times
a day and whose counting? consider the lefty frank luntz type of thing. see ya
Public discourse in the U.S. took a big hit when PBS dumped Bill Moyers, David Brancaccio, and Maria Hinojosa. What one historian has called “the thinning of American political culture” continues and this time PBS is to blame.
PBS and NPR have both been corrupted by Republicans for a long time. Its true that they have some good programs left, but they have lost their cutting edge. I no longer trust them for any real, independent journalism, I count on the internet for that.
Meacham may know but he apparently doesn’t understand what he knows. This was aptly demonstrated by his driving of Newsweek into the ditch.
Absolutely right. They should watch some of Moyer’s shows–maybe they’d get a hint!
I don’t see anyone anywhere lightyears near Bill Moyers. I’d rather watch reruns of Moyers, of have some of these wanna-bes watch them and hear panel discussions about why these shows are so unique.
On the other hand, any show is not done by one person, so what happened to the apparatus that Moyer’s had in place. Could they get him to oversee or executive produce a show with the same group on the same issues with the same hard hitting points of view and fact driven stories?
The critical people and ideas in this country are being swirled around to circle the drain so the Republicans can get rid of anyone who wants to think or express any idea other than echoes of Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, O’Reilly, etc.
I have not watched PBS since Bill Moyers was dropped off of the network. Moyers was fair. He went into depth with expert guests. He is just the type of person that you would expect Public Broadcasting to want on the air. As for Alison Stewart, I watched her a lot when she did replacement duty for Keith Olbermann on Count Down. She is cute, she has a lot of spark, but she would not be my choice for a news type program that goes into depth on issues. Count Down is pretty much structured and Keith does a great job of getting at the truth on issues. Alison was just a pretty face that could never replace Olbermann or Bill Moyers for journalistic skills. I have not seen her on the new show and will boycott PBS until Moyers is given a new show.
Hard to replace thoughtful wisdom.
Thoughtful wisdom is hard to replace in this new age.
I loved Bill Moyers and would watch re-runs gladly.
Mr. Moyers stated very plainly he wanted to retire and we should not be clamoring for him to return. While in the poetic sense no human being can ever be replaced, in the technical sense the show can be reproduced if a comparable public figure can be located. Sadly no name comes quickly to my mind as few achieved the stature of Moyers in recent times who haven’t been labelled in the popular mind as “left of center.” Perhaps FAIR or its subscribers can make suggestions.
I waited quite a while to hear the real reason for Bill Moyer’s leaving. But he never was “up front” with
the “reason” …. I kept hoping he might finally explode and reveal the plot afoot to “git rid of him”,
but he never did. He is an intelligent gentleman, after all, and I am hoping against hope that he is planning another program just like his– (or maybe he is searching for a production company as honest as PBS “was”?
Programs now being aired by PBS are beginning to go over the edge in terms of “conservative” viewpoints.
of the coin. I feel some big money grabber has gobbled up our one and only (except for NPR, “so far”)
Am very frustrated….. so stop me!!!!
PBS has become just like the crappy MSM!
It was a mentally nourishing routine to see Bill Moyers, David Brancaccio, and Maria Hinajosa on Friday evenings. As I compose this note on a Friday night, 4 months after their leaving, I still feel a hole in my Friday nights. I listened closely to Bill Moyers at the end to determine his reasons for leaving. We share a birth year, 1934. At one point he stated that he just turned 76 and he needed to slow down. I fully understand his reasoning.
As for replacements, no one can quite do the hard hitting questions like Bill Moyers. But there are others at PBS who perform top notch journalism and I would be happy to see them in a similar show to Now or the Journal. David and Maria are two of these journalists. I’ve been impressed by Steve Inskeep and Deborah Amos. In the meantime, I’m getting over my nostalgia for Now and the Journal and have moved on to Common Dreams, Huffington Post, and Amy Goodman.
Coulda been what we DIDN’T Need to know, like their last week’s lead story of the Breitbart/Sherrod brouhaha in Place OF the SCHEDULED investigative expose’ of the DEFORMS in the Obamanible “Financial” Bill!
That’s right, no more intelligent Friday nights. Maybe we could get Free Speech TV or World Link, or Democracy Now! How about Amy Goodman in a Moyers type production, as Beverly suggests. Laura Flanders, Thom Hartman? Nah! that might be too much substance–real information. Petroleum Network couldn’t hack it.
In depth investigative reporting entails more than reading a teleprompter.
And what passes for a humorous tag line is just pathetic.
Though Moyers will be sorely missed, bringing Brancaccio and Hinojosa back for an hour would be a step in the right direction.
Need to know needs to go.
So pleased to see so many thoughtful, heartfelt responses to the disturbing trend in “public” television. I was upset when Bill Moyers left NOW originally, but I did like David Brancaccio and Maria Hinojosa. I just wish it had stayed at an hour, half an hour was never enough time. I also enjoy Fareed Zacharia, but I guess he moved on to another network? Seems like I’ve seen him once in a while elsewhere. But prior to that I remember his show was buried on a weekend morning, early. I have also been increasingly disappointed in the NewsHour. I agree with Beverly Smith’s comments about PBS going over the edge to present the conservative viewpoint. It seems that there are more criticisms of the Democrats and President Obama on PBS than on any of the networks, and anytime there is something positive to report, it is quickly followed by a negative or some Republican disclaiming the achievement. I wrote the Ombudsman at the time that NOW and Moyer were taken off the air expressing my feelings. I don’t feel like PBS even cares. It’s so sad. I’ve listened and contributed for 40 years, but I’m pretty much done unless there is a quick change in direction. And what is wrong with a little progressive and liberal thinking being presented on TV once in a while?? Are we no longer allowed a voice in this country any more? Well, if PBS finds its revenues plummeting, don’t blame the Internet!!
Information dissemination was a conservative target and they bought up all of the media to get control. It gives new meaning to “The Media Is The Message.” Now our remaining freedom of speech is at stake while the big guys try to tie up the internet. Newspapers are all but gone, TV is going, radio isn’t far behind. The fight for the internet is on and most of us sleep. If the so mislabeled “Liberal Media” ever existed, it stood and watched the takeover instead of objecting, investigating and reporting. Sometimes it is necessary to bite the hand that feeds you, especially so when it is connected to the body of the boss that also censors you.
I agree with most of the comments and additionally lament the loss of real conversation, where people learn and listen to one another and we all gain. The previous hosts cared deeply about human rights, fairness, exposing the hidden agendas that allowed injustice and damages to the human spirit. Those qualities cannot be faked or scripted.
Krugman seems to now be the only progressive who has mainstream media prominence.
Meacham? Stewart? Maye intellectually bright, but boring and the show? Deplorable substitute for the real thing.
I have a theory almost since WNET hired Ju-ju Chang’s hubby, Neil Shapiro, that he was brought in to allow PBS to be squeezed by the corporate types (oil, anyone?) until the PBS franchise became a real loser–financially, that is. Then, in an act of magnificent generosity, irony, and cynicism, a fine corporate buyer like, say, BP would come to the rescue, buy up the wastebaskets for a song and after a short incarnation become Fox II, well, maybe just ABC II.
It was a crazy idea, but now when I read about Fred Silverman’s being brought in to head up KCET in LA I’m thinking that maybe I was on to something.
Just ‘sposin’. Anyone else willing to go out on a very narrow limb?
After watching Need To Know last night I finally came to the conclusion that I wouldn’t bother to wait up for the program any longer. Apparently, I am not alone.
I don’t think PBS had any intention of creating another Moyers type show. I can’t imagine the grief their received from conservatives each and every week. PBS follows the donations and here in a red state the focus seems to be on WWII remembrances and hours and hours of Lawrence Welk and “Andre” reruns. Frankly I’m surprised there is still a Frontline.
Meecham is a center right guy and proud of it. He’s also a magazine guy and that would appear what he is producing ever week. I don’t need to see the news I’ve watched all week regurgitated in 6 minutes rather than 3. Moyers found the most interesting and the most informed and let them speak unfettered until they fully developed their point. Sadly no other media has seen the value in that.
When pledge week comes up I will donate the grand total of 10 cents along with a letter explaining my generosity. I figure this will cause them to loose money on my donation (it has to cost more than10 cents to process my contribution). When PBS programing is worth no more than a dime a dozen maybe then they will re-consider their mission.
“Need to Know” looks particularly awful, a great expression of the covert fascism of the diversity corporatism that puts Obama and the comely A. Stewart in front, and the egregious Ivy whitebreads as the brains, moneybags, audience, and controllers in back.
However, if the best that the micrometer Left could put up was ex-LBJ aide windbag/preacher Bill Moyers – what was the pojnt? Endless cocktail chatter from the enfranchised academic/literary “opposition” – with exactly zero effect or self-knowledge. FSTV – scraggly, lower than low budget, as forlorn as a menial wage slave in the furthest hinterlands of the corporate empire – but the only station on TV with even a modicum of integrity.
Bill Moyers, Maria Hinajosa, David Brancaccio are plain & simple — real journalists…They tried to understand underlying causes, explore multiple points of view, get facts, find the truth, report on important issues affecting the public good, report on important debates about same. It’s tragic that this is so rare in our society which is trapped in a flood of flimflam fake journalism — fake because it’s so controlled by Big Money (whether the corporate sponsors of PBS or the commercial outlets). The fear of corporate sponsors is more & more obvious on PBS — with everything timid, toned down, dodging big issues & following formulas of “balance” (which never include real diversity & doesn’t actually try to get at the truth–just having ‘balance’ doesn’t give objectivity — maybe both ‘sides’ are wrong, maybe the ‘right’ ‘left’ spectrum distorts the questions). Because NOW & Bill Moyers Jour were so different, our household used to plan our week around that evening. Since they were unceremoniously dumped (with no real explanation despite repeated queries by public) I find almost nothing worth watching on PBS. Boring, superficial, predictable or sappy (icky, weird fundraiser nostalgia).
I have some of my favorite Bill Moyers and Now programs saved by my TIVO, but I don’t save any Need to Know. They are o.k. but insipid is the word that comes to mind. I haven’t contributed since they dropped Bill.
Charlie Rose does a good job of interviewing but it’s still not the same format as Bill. I liked David and Maria also.
Bill Moyers was (IMHO) the best investigative journalist on television. David and Maria were also very good. I no longer watch or donate to PBS, since these quality people are gone. I sorely miss their lively conversations with intelligent and informed guests. I looked forward every week to learning something new, and to getting accurate information. I am grateful for the years I enjoyed NOW and the Journal, but still hope there will be a replacement worth watching. Can Bill Moyers help? Will the executives at PBS listen to him?
Watched Need to Know one time only. What a waste of one’s time.
Public television has become a public disgrace over the past decade. Fund raisers used to run for one week each quarter, following FCC regulations, with excellent programs created for the purpose. Now we are “treated” night after night to repeats of old, tired ridiculous excuses for musical entertainment, old bald men in sweaters and suits pretending to know what they’re talking about, etc.
PBS will no longer receive a donation from this viewer. Let the oil companies continue to pay you to pollute the airwaves. They have successfully polluted everything else!
What is PBS doing?
I have long stopped watching network/cable TV, and now with the latest insult to our intelligence … Replacing in-depth journalism with meaningless speak that has no bite or serious investigative inquiry, I’m ending my relationship with Comcast for good and going to live in Europe. Hopefully Orwellianism hasn’t taken over there yet, although I’m not holding my breath with Murdock lurking around every corner.
Moyers obviously felt what he was saying. Brancaccio seemed to me, for one, to be a good teleprompter reader and not much more. The boy wonder who alienated most of the Newsweek editors before letting them go, however, has no broadcast talent whatever, and sweetie pie there is totally at sea without the teleprompter. Mix in the regurgitated mush and voila! No reason to watch TV any more.
I too am disappointed (read bored to death) by Need to Know. All the comments are true. I think that I just need to vent a little. That’s why I’m commenting. Bill Moyers is of a different generation from the need-to-knowers. He’s of the generation that at least aspired to adulthood, and strives for wisdom. This current crop of tv entertainers are faces/talking heads. They are not serious and have very low attention spans. Seriousness is not valued by them. Infact they need to lighten-up everything, hence the jokester at the end of their program. Public Broadcasting, both radio and tv has undergone a change in the last ten years that has diminished them. From the pixeling out of bare behinds and breasts to appease the right wing in congress, to the ridiculous need to do the Walking the Bible series which had a serious christian evangelical bent. This infotainment program is just the continuation of the trend. Susan Jacoby laments the U.S.’ anti-intellectualism in her two most famous books; I’ll wager that with PBS’ degradation there’ll soon be more to lament!
A country of over 300 million should not have to rely to such a degree on a single soul … Moyers … for well articulated truth. In fact there are others who could do as well, but whose names are not as front and center as Moyers’, and whose personalities differ. Chris Hedges, a theologian/journalist is every bit as articulate. So is constitutional lawyer turned journalist Glenn Greenwald.
The very fact that PBS chose an establishment rubber stamper/editor of Newsweek as a replacement for Moyers says it all.
What would one expect from PBS executive producers? Two born again republicans without real journalistic credentials. Next they’ll bring back Tucker Carlson to provide another alternative point of view. That is the mission of non commercial TV isn’t it?
I used to watch the News Hour until bedtime on Friday nights. Now we don’t turn on TV on Fridays. Self help, bad music, ball room dancing, financial advice, & news provided by think tanks. How long until the first infomercial or has that already occurred?
PBS bears a lot responsibility
With all due respect I think that PBS bears a certain responsibility here. They continue to report the news as if they are covering a tennis match–simply going back and forth–without ever noting that most of what the GOP is lobbing really should be out of bounds–lies, misinformation and out right fear mongering. Rather than factual informative journalism we are treated to balanced pre digested pablum prepared for folks who can’t stomach truth.
For example, as things stand now, when somebody like John Boehner steps out in front of the press and intones that he and the Republicans are fighting to stop a “total government take over of health care”–the press dutifully reports that–without ever once noting that no such take over is remotely in the offing–that Obama never supported even a total government takeover of health care insurance–let alone proposing nationalizing the entire industry.
Part of the problem we face right now as a nation is that a significant percentage of politicians–and one entire political party–has become convinced that they can lie with impunity–that any attempt to hold them accountable will be too late in the news cycle to be noticed–and that any that are noticed can be dismissed as partisan.
If you listened to the speakers at the Tea Party gathering last week–or CPAC this week–as I did, it was like having a window open into an entirely different universe–one where the federal government has already taken over and is running “the banks, the auto companies and the insurance companies”–one where Obama is a “Marxist-socialist” foreigner, intent upon some sort of Bolshevik takeover of the country–one where everyone’s taxes have already gone up and their guns are about to taken away.
A sizable percentage of the American public–I’d venture to say 20% are totally bent out of shape, up in arms and apparently on the verge of taking up arms–about things that simply aren’t true & are not happening.
It’s shocking failure by the “free” press our founders invested so much time and energy into creating and safeguarding, to do what those founders believed was an essential service in the preservation of our liberty and nation–exposing frauds and fabulists, spinning falsehoods for their own partisan and personal gain.
At this point in time–it appears to be entirely possible that the American press is going to let the Republicans lie their way back into power–much as the press allowed the Bush/Cheney administration to lie this nation into a war of choice in Iraq.
PBS bears a lot of responsibility.
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you know the right wing owns a piece of PBS when the Book Tv shows have authors nobody ever heard of who wrote one book probably sponsored by Scaif or the Weekly Standard on a predigested far right talking point supplied by Drudge or some othe right wing poll taker.
The sole purpose of some of these so called books including Gingrich,Buchanan and other never wases is to appear on PBS
I was hoping Bill Moyers was grooming David and in turn Maria and passing on his journalistic knowledge to the next generation. When he left NOW and David stayed, it looked hopeful that perhaps NOW would return to the 1 hr format. Then we got the Journal and Friday night was looking good again. When they pushed McLaughlin’s yelling quartet to Saturday night, it got even better. I rather enjoyed World Report also. I can understand Moyers wanting to get back to writing books (maybe he’ll do a couple on “journalism for dummies” that can be used as textbooks). What I couldn’t understand was WHY PBS dumped the 1/2 hr NOW program when Bill went off the air. Were we getting a new 1 1/2 hr program? Nope! So what was the point? I think they were smart to put it on after “Larkrise to Candleford” – just to separate it from the news.
I’ve tried to watch “Need to Know” with an open mind since nothing CAN replace Moyers; but the comments here say it all – as an investigative journal, it’s a joke. The comedy segment at the end says it all. What a bunch of maroons! Then the other day I picked up an copy of Newsweek in the doctor’s office and there was Meacham’s Editorial: calling for Cheney to run for President in 2012! Lord luv a duck!
PBS Newshour is getting to be mostly talking head opinion pieces and all they’re doing is speculating on what this means or what that trend implies – or we get into the polls and the horse-races. OMG! I never liked the “fair and balanced” bit especially during the last administration when everyone who came on said exacctly the same thing I’d been hearing all day. At least they could have found people with a third point of view. I keep hoping they’ll stop the current opinion blather and at least start asking questions. Instead of talking about the latest polls numbers (who cares (other than the media)?) and put out a piece that just says “Hey folks – it’s a slow news day! Here’s some questions we’d like to see answered and some subjects we think should be covered!”
It took me awhile to get used to Charlie Rose, but I really enjoy his show now. His series on the Brain is fascinating! But now he’s only on during primetime on the “Plus” channel with a repeat in the middle of the next afternoon! and PBS Newshour is on four (4) times a night! What the hey??
Then there’s Tavis Smiley “one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world”. OMG!!! That’s a sad commentary on the state of the world. His 1/2 hour program can be entertaining sometimes especially when he gets “tickled” by his guests. But PLEASE no more of his 1 hr documentaries. He becomes stiff as a post and actually leans away from the people he’s talking to. It’s just NOT his format.
Have to say I do miss the Newshour format opening that had Jim Lehrer in front of the large blue globe — he looked like a big blue Buddha! Come on PBS, I’ve been supporting you for over 20 years (mostly because I hate commercials); and I’ll keep on for awhile, but my heart’s not in it at the moment and I’ve stopped giving gift suscriptions.
Having unsuccessfully tried to gore an ox (Moyers), I’ll try to get the party moving by saying that as bad as “Need to Know” might be, and as sensationally unwatchable as PBS might have become, the Andy Borowitz segment on “Need to Know” was first-rate, brilliant satire. “Ken Burns’ Ken Burns” demolished the centrist icon’s style and hubris with a master’s touch. Borowitz’s riffs on “Pledge Week” were equally biting of the PBS hand. Fair is fair – Borowitz is far better than that Shecky Greene of the GEN X crowd, JStewart.
Here is a subtle example of why I am close to shutting of the TV forever. On WGBH, they are currently running that travel show every day as part of the current and seemingly perpetual fund-raising campaign (The show where the host visits Iran and introduces us to their culture). He describes the history of US-Iran relations, with our support of the Shah earlier in the 20th century, followed by Iran’s election of a new leader who nationalized their oil industry, followed by the CIA backed coup that put the Shah back in power to denationalize the oil industry..and…well…you know the rest of the story. So he then showed us examples of the many larger than life murals painted on the walls of Tehran, with both political and religious themes. And some are indeed not complimentary to the USA. But even after articulating how the USA has meddled in Iran’s internal affairs over the years, including our backing of Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war, he had to tell us that many of these murals OFFENDED HIM (as an American) but, of course, he still likes the Iranian people. Offended him? Why? They didn’t offend me. They were not vicious murals depicting death to America. They were purely political, like the one showing the US flag with stripes oriented vertically, but with bombs dropping from the bottom of each stripe. The murals simply provided a different view of the world through a different set of eyes, which is what I thought the show was aiming to do anyway. Couldn’t he just recognize the murals as a natural consequence of their experience with us without judging their rightness or wrongness? No, he had to claim that he was offended to convince us that he is a card carrying patriotic American, so it is still OK to donate. At least, that was my take. That one comment poisoned the show for me. I am close to being done with PBS, and of course, all of TV.
The Bill Moyers show was always the one and only TV show I never missed viewing. It was excellent journalism.
It seems to me that Allison Stewart would be better off on VH-1, as opposed to PBS…
Journalists like Bill Moyers, David Brancaccio, Maria Hinojosa, and Amy Goodman all possess a temperament that is serious. Their dedication to getting the story right comes across in every question they ask, in every follow-up, in the tone they use, in their body language. And they challenge us to think for ourselves. As a result they will never engage the typical short sighted, lazy and uninformed viewer who just wants to be entertained by those who tell them the things they already agree with.
It was difficult to say farewell to those who made The Journal and Now so profoundly important to authentic journalism. Those, like me, who were sponges in that fountain – that connection to clarified truth and knowledge they provided in the midst of the barren desert of what passes for investigative journalism these days, rarely see a glimmer of hope that others see what I saw and heard what I heard and will take up the banner. Meachem and the others who seem lost in the desert having missed the fountain altogether don’t provide much hope.
Even when Moyers was still on at PBS, the overall content of PBS was unsatisfying, corporate dominjated, no news content, and followeed the government line pretty closely. I have long told my wife, and others, that PBS stands for the Public Propaganda System.
Now it s much worse. I only watch opera, dance, symphonys anymore on PBS, and they are not offered often.
I haven’t seen the show but I can identify with the sentiments expressed here. The Sun-Times used to have a columnist, Zay N. Smith who just kind of did snarky blurbs, though he did have a history of pretty hard-hitting journalism involving corrupt city officials. Due to the company’s cheapness, they dropped him. Now the paper, IMO, doesn’t have half the value it once did. Coincidentally, the stock value tells about the same story.
I haven’t seen the show either, but I’ve seen a number of Meacham’s written and verbal quotes. For example, last February in Newsweek he blamed US citizens for problems getting meaningful reform passed in Washington, pooh-poohing the thought that the president and congress are to blame as simple “fun.”
It always makes me want to roll my eyes when these rich and powerful media gatekeepers who bond with rich and powerful senators in holy groupthink use such tortured logic to do an end-run around the fact that politicians, with the media’s steady aid, have long been ignoring the wishes of many millions of non-rich American citizens who’ve been calling for serious change for decades.
Jon Meacham and his league are smart guys. Maybe smart enough to know how to provide cover for politicians who tell them the American people want more military might, more freedom for corporate giants, more nonviolent lawbreakers in prison, etc., when the contrary results of their own polls are staring them right in the face.
What I am noticing, as a Boomer who is adjusting to forced retirement, that NPR and PBS, like many small businesses in my town, have not been grooming suitable replacements for their key staff, so whole traditions and things that work are being lost. What a shame!
Bill Moyers might want to retire and should – our lifespans are limited. But he could have been involved in guiding and training a new replacement who was up to the challenge of maintaining the quality that Moyers represents. Instead our country had to quit ‘cold turkey’.
An exception might be the PBS News Hour where several people are being groomed to take over from Jim Lehrer. PBS locally is spending much more time fundraising and uses too many re-runs. And the advertisements are getting in the way.
Something did change about PBS during the Bush administration – I guess we should look to their favorite pets to find the answer about what is spoiling PBS.
Altogether, its a great post, but you might have spent a littlemore time with it. but a great post
I totally agree with Ben’s comments on August 7. We will miss Bill Moyers. I understand that he really wanted to retire? However, we have never heard any explanation about David Brancaccio and Maria Hinohosa’s departure from PBS? I do think PBS owe us an explanation.