Bill Moyers, Lyndon Johnson press chief and celebrated broadcaster, dies at 91 | US politics
Former White House Press Secretary Bill Moyers, one of the most honorable journalists of television, used a masterful visual environment to illuminate an idea world, died on Thursday at the age of 91.
Moyers died in a New York City Hospital, a former General Manager of CNN Tom Johnson and Lyndon B Johnson, a New York City Hospital, an assistant of Moyers.
Moyers’ son William said that his father died in Memorial Sloan Ketting in New York after a “long illness”.
Moyers’ career, from the young Baptist Minister of Johnson Press Secretary to the newspaper publisher, CBS evening news senior news analyst, and the Chief Reporter of the CBS reports, extended to the Deputy Director of Peace Force.
However, for public television, Moyers produced TV’s most cerebral and provocative series. In hundreds of hours of PBS programs, it proved at home with issues ranging from corruption to modern dance, drug addiction to media consolidation, from religion to environmental abuse.
In 1988, Moyers produced a secret government about the Iran-Conto scandal during the Reagan administration and published a book under the same name at the same time. At that time, his audience was galvanized with the power of Joseph Campbell and Myth, and he interviewed a series of six -hour interviews with the leading clergyman. The accompanying book was the best selling.
His conversations on television with the poet Robert Bly launched the 1990s male movement almost alone and had a deep impact on the 1993 series Healing and The Mind Medical Society and Medical Education.
In an environment that hates the so -called “speech heads, – the subject and interviewer -speaking shots – Moyers has only specialized in this. He once explained why: “Question, do the heads think of minds and think of people? Is it interesting to watch? I think the most fascinating production value is the human face.”
Moyers, who showed what he calls “soft, probably the style of probing ında in the native Texas accent, where someone never lost, was a humanist who explored the world with a calm, logical perspective.
It was liberally detonated by some neighborhoods, connections with Johnson and public television and his approach to researcher journalism. It was a label that he didn’t necessarily deny.
During the 2004 Radio interview, he said, “Old -fashioned libery in being open and dealing with others’ ideas.” However, Moyers chose to call it a “citizen journalist önemli operating independently outside the organization.
In an interview with the Associated Press in 2007, the public television (and the self -financed production company) gave him a free rein in order to throw him the tak speech of open democracy to all arrivals ”.
“I think my peers on commercial television are talented and loyal journalists,” he said, “But they chose to work in an institutional mainstream that strengthens their capabilities that will comply with the institutional nature of American life. And you are not rewarded for telling the harsh facts about America in an environment seeking profit.”
Over the years, Moyers has received a shower with more than 30 Emmy, 11 George Foster Peabody award, three George Polks, and twice with Honors, including Career Excellence Award at Alfred I Dupont-Columbia University Golden Baton Journalism. In 1995, he entered the Television Honor List.
Born in Hugo on June 5, 1934 in Hugo, Oklahoma, Billy Don Moyers was the son of a dirt farmer truck driver who carried his family to Texas, Marshall. High school took him to journalism.
“I wanted to play football, but I was very small. But I saw sports in the school newspaper and I saw the players waiting to see what I wrote in the newspaper,” he remembered.
He worked at the age of 16 for Marshall News Messenger. He decided that Bill Moyers was a more suitable line for a sports writer and made Y.
He graduated from the University of Texas and completed his master’s degree in a divine will from the Southwest Baptist Theology Seminar. He was assigned and preached in two churches in two churches, but later decided that his call to the ministry was a “wrong number ..
His relationship with Johnson began when he was in college; At that time, he offered the Senator to work in the 1954 re -election campaign. Johnson was impressed and hired him for a summer job. In the early 1960s, he returned to Johnson’s employment as a personal assistant and worked at the Peace Force for two years and finally became the Deputy Director.
The day John f Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Moyers was helping a presidential trip in Austin. He returned to Washington at Air Force One with the new sworn President Johnson, who was in various works, including the press secretary.
As Moyers’s presidential press secretary, it was marked with efforts to improve the worsening relationship between Johnson and the media. However, the Vietnam war fee and Moyers resigned in December 1966.
After leaving the White House, he wrote: “We have become a reform government, not a war government, and under these circumstances, there is no creative role for me.”
