NOW is a PBSnewsmagazine especially covering social and political issues.
Originally called NOW with Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers hosted the program for three years, retiring on December 17, 2004. David Brancaccio, whom Moyers introduced as a co-host in the autumn of 2003, took over hosting duties on January 7, 2005.
NOW programs tend to focus on issues such corporate crime and the environment —a focus that has angered members of the presidentially appointed Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In the summer of 2004 the Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced that it would no longer provide funding for NOW. This loss of funding may explain why episodes of the new version of NOW are only 30 minutes long (unlike the hour-long NOW with Bill Moyers episodes).
Moyers is the broadest in the curiosity and craft of his journalism, which is to say in the independent quality of his thinking.
This is what binds us peculiarly to BillMoyers: that his struggles in Christian faith and with Lyndon Johnson, his attachment to civil rights and deep reading, his long observation of the Texas oil oligarchy and his prophetic wars on PAC money all keep revealing themselves.
The smashed sand castle of her cousinsÂ’ compound, the survivor rolling in a kind of frenzy of remorse on the rubble, the empty landscape to the far horizon and the frozen blue sky above were all shot, I supposed, with a digital camera, hand-held by a master at a new craft.
BillMoyers is an exceptional case among former White House press secretaries is almost to damn him with faint praise.
Moyers is the intellectual's version of Barbara Walters -- or rather, Walters is the celebrity-struck populist's version of him.
I think the secret to BillMoyers' success is not merely his benevolent, avuncular manner but his gentle, almost singsong, folksy-yet-learned delivery (which he says he absorbed from the storytelling tradition of rural East Texas, where he was raised).
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