Bill Moyers Signs off Now

One of the great things about living in Toronto is that for a one-time $20.00 investment, a pair of rabbit ears will give you the best of the best that television has to offer. I’m talking public television: provincial, Canadian and American. The airwaves are public and so should our media.

For me watching commercial news is like eating a giant bowl of Capn’ Crunch cereal with chocolate milk: sugary, sinful and definitely not good for the heart (or brain.) So each night for the past few months, when I’m all done watching my fake news, I’ve caught the last half of Now with Bill Moyers.

After 33 years on public television, Bill Moyers will host Now for the last time tonight. And this evening’s broadcast seems tailored made for Moyers. The topic is the media and it should be a good one. From pbs.org:

Bill Moyers looks inside the right-wing media machine that the conservative NEW YORK TIMES columnist David Brooks called a “dazzlingly efficient ideology delivery system.” The program examines how a vast echo chamber that is admittedly partisan and powerfully successful delivers information ? and misinformation ? with more regard for propaganda than fact. Founding father to the conservative movement, Richard Viguerie tells Moyers, ?That?s what journalism is, Bill. It?s all just opinion. Just opinion.?

Find your PBS station and tune in tonight to see Bill get the last word.