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Soda
Citizen
Username: Soda
Post Number: 2136
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 17, 2004 - 3:53 pm: | 
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A giant in modern TV journalism.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/17/arts/television/17moye.html?adxnnl=1&8hpib=&ad xnnlx=1103293479-oTsRwSk9eP1jUKSHPDpHLw
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cjc
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Username: Cjc
Post Number: 2914
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 17, 2004 - 7:52 pm: |
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temperate rhetoric?? A 'journalist' that presents both sides of the issue without passing judgement??? 
He's as much a journalist as Bill O'Reilly is. That the only place that would employ him is one that doesn't depend on commercial viability or an audience, instead relying upon subsidies, charity and a small following of losers is telling. |
notehead
Citizen
Username: Notehead
Post Number: 1814
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 5:52 pm: |
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Yeah. it's telling. In a good way. And he's got more IQ in a fingernail than O'Reilly.
How many Emmys has O'Reilly received? |
cjc
Citizen
Username: Cjc
Post Number: 2920
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 7:43 pm: |
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And an Emmy means his fellow travelers love him. And Janet Cooke won a Pulitzer. Ted Kaczinski was a fallen intellectual. And the point would be.....? |
Duncan
Citizen
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 3660
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 11:00 am: |
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How do you know that "the only place that would employ him" is PBS?
He has been there as long as I remember, before he became more widely known thanks to the Power of Myth series with Joseph Campbell. What is telling is that he got a job, stayed at it, and is a great interviewer. IMHO. And what you know about the emmy's could also fit on Bill O'Reillys little fingernail.
But since you already think I'm clueless...oops sorry a loser (because I not only know who Bill Moyers is, but think he is great) then there is no conversation to be had.
His series on Death was eye-opening.(no pun intened) And The Power of Myth has helped me to understand more about the world and the source of its religions then anything I can think of.
But again I bow to your obviously superior intellect in knowing what job offers Moyers has had, how often he has tried to leave PBS and been shot down, and all the other specifics of the mans career choices. |
Joe
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Username: Gonets
Post Number: 556
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 10:30 pm: |
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The need to maintain commercial viability is the main reason why watching network news is a waste of time. It's more infotainment than journalism. |
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