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Bill Moyers Defends His Liberal Bias
Bill Moyers, the former host of the "Now” program on PBS, brushed aside the claim that his show had a liberal bias, carping that conservative critics unfairly tarred him with the "liberal” brush. Perhaps Moyers forgot that he clearly showed his liberal stripes when he devoted his last "Now” broadcast to a fierce blast at "the right-wing media.” Moyers became embroiled in controversy after Kenneth Tomlinson took over as chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and cited "Now” as a chief reason why he wanted to bring "balance” to public broadcasting with more conservative programming. In an interview with the publication Broadcasting & Cable, Moyers was asked: "Was your show liberally biased?”
Story Continues Below He answered: "Right wing partisans like Tomlinson have always attacked aggressive reporting as liberal. We were biased all right – in favor of uncovering the news that powerful people wanted to keep hidden.” He went on: "It is an old canard of right-wing ideologues like Tomlinson to equate tough journalism with liberalism. "They hope to distract people from the message by trying to discredit the messenger.” But that’s exactly what Moyers did late last year when he used his last taxpayer-funded "Now” program to attack conservative media. As NewsMax reported in December 2004:
Moyers also stated in an earlier program: "I'm going out telling the story that I think is the biggest story of our time: how the right-wing media has [sic] become a partisan propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee." As NewsMax reported at the time: He failed to mention that for decades the left-wing media establishment, ranging from PBS and NPR to the New York Times and the CBS of Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather, has been and continues to be a partisan propaganda arm of the Democratic National Committee.
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