Bill Moyers prepares to sign off at age 70.
"I'm going out telling the story that I think is the biggest story of our time: how the right-wing media has become a partisan propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee," says Moyers. "We have an ideological press that's interested in the election of Republicans, and a mainstream press that's interested in the bottom line. Therefore, we don't have a vigilant, independent press whose interest is the American people."Bill Moyers is a respected journalist. The goal of any respected journalist is to appear completely objective. Why he would choose to call this the biggest story of our time serves only to taint his supposed objectivity. An argument can definitely be made that an increasing number of American news outlets take a transparantly biased conservative point of view. This has filled a vacuum created by decades of liberal "Eastern think" which in Moyer's opinion represents the interest of the American people. Another dinosaur dies when Moyers joins Rather and Brokaw in retirement.
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