Bill Moyers Quotes About Journalism

• La calidad de la democracia y la calidad del periodismo están profundamente entrelazadas.

  Bill Moyers

  Media, Democracy, Quality

  "Bill Moyer’s Speech – Nat’l Conf. for Media Reform". dailygrail.com. May 19, 2005.

• Una prensa libre es aquella en la que está bien llegar a la conclusión a la que te llevan las pruebas. Una de las razones por las que estoy en apuros es porque mis colegas y yo en NOW no seguimos las reglas convencionales del periodismo de la periferia. Esas reglas dividen el mundo en demócratas y republicanos, liberales y conservadores, y permiten a los periodistas fingir que han hecho su trabajo si, en lugar de informar de la verdad que se esconde tras la noticia, se limitan a dar a cada bando la oportunidad de darle la vuelta a la noticia.

  Bill Moyers

  Jobs, Opportunity, Play

  "Bill Moyers Responds to CPB’s Tomlinson Charges of Liberal Bias: 'We Were Getting it Right, But Not Right Wing'". www.democracynow.org. May 16, 2005.

• Sure enough, as merger has followed merger, journalism has been driven further down the hierarchy of values in the huge conglomerates that dominate what we see, read and hear. And to feed the profit margins journalism has been directed to other priorities than "the news we need to know to keep our freedoms"

  Bill Moyers

  Priorities, Profit Margin, Mergers

• Tenemos que alimentar el espíritu del periodismo independiente en este país, o no salvaremos al capitalismo de sus propios excesos, ni a la democracia de su propia inercia.

  Bill Moyers

  Country, Independent, Democracy

• The most important thing the giant philanthropies could do - Gates, Rockefeller, Ford, Open Society Institute, and new ones emerging - would be to create a $2-to-$3 billion Trust for Independent Journalism. They wouldn't miss the money, and democracy would still have a fighting chance because of their investment.

  Bill Moyers

  Independent, Fighting, Missing

  Fuente: progressive.org

• Journalism's been a continuing course in adult education for me.

  Bill Moyers

  Adults, Journalism, Continuing

  Fuente: progressive.org

• A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times?

  Bill Moyers

  Events, Different, Journalism

• It's very difficult to measure the impact on policy of any investigative journalism. You hope it matters to let a little more truth loose in the world, but you can't always be sure it does. You do it because there's a story to be told. I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.

  Bill Moyers

  Jobs, Impact, People

  Fuente: progressive.org

• Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.

  Bill Moyers

  Mistake, Journalism, Libel

  Bill Moyers (2008). “Moyers on Democracy”, p.109, Anchor

• A profound transformation is happening here. The framers of our nation never envisioned these huge media giants; never imagined what could happen if big government, big publishing and big broadcasters ever saw eye-to-eye in putting the public's need for news second to their own interests. I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined ... .

  Bill Moyers

  Correr, Creer, Ojo

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