Bill Moyers Quotes About Journalism

• Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.

  →

  Bill Moyers

  Bill Moyers (2008). “Moyers on Democracy”, p.109, Anchor

  3916

• We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we'll not save democracy from its own inertia.

  →

  Bill Moyers

  2294

• It's very difficult to measure the impact on policy of any investigative journalism. You hope it matters to let a little more truth loose in the world, but you can't always be sure it does. You do it because there's a story to be told. I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.

  →

  Bill Moyers

  Source: progressive.org

  1623

• A free press is one where it's okay to state the conclusion you're led to by the evidence. One reason I'm in hot water is because my colleagues and I at NOW didn't play by the conventional rules of Beltway journalism. Those rules divide the world into Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.

  →

  Bill Moyers

  "Bill Moyers Responds to CPB’s Tomlinson Charges of Liberal Bias: 'We Were Getting it Right, But Not Right Wing'". www.democracynow.org. May 16, 2005.

  4866

• The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.

  →

  Bill Moyers

  "Bill Moyer’s Speech – Nat’l Conf. for Media Reform". dailygrail.com. May 19, 2005.

  1376

• A profound transformation is happening here. The framers of our nation never envisioned these huge media giants; never imagined what could happen if big government, big publishing and big broadcasters ever saw eye-to-eye in putting the public's need for news second to their own interests. I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined ... .

  →

  Bill Moyers

  575

• Sure enough, as merger has followed merger, journalism has been driven further down the hierarchy of values in the huge conglomerates that dominate what we see, read and hear. And to feed the profit margins journalism has been directed to other priorities than "the news we need to know to keep our freedoms"

  →

  Bill Moyers

  4327

• The most important thing the giant philanthropies could do - Gates, Rockefeller, Ford, Open Society Institute, and new ones emerging - would be to create a $2-to-$3 billion Trust for Independent Journalism. They wouldn't miss the money, and democracy would still have a fighting chance because of their investment.

  →

  Bill Moyers

  Source: progressive.org

  2932

• A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times?

  →

  Bill Moyers

  537

• Journalism's been a continuing course in adult education for me.

  →

  Bill Moyers

  Source: progressive.org

  872

You May Also Like:

Bob Schieffer

Betty Sue Flowers

Brian Williams

Amy Goodman

Robert Reich

Joseph Campbell

Joseph Stiglitz

Bernie Sanders