Bill Moyers Helped Break the Media’s Climate Silence
In recent days, the journalism world has been paying tribute to Bill Moyers, and rightly so. Bill died last Thursday, June 26, at the age of ninety-one. Obituaries and tributes have cited his work as the White House press secretary to President Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s and his subsequent decades of TV journalism at PBS and CBS, where his eyewitness reports, probing interviews, and incisive commentary on a vast range of subjects were lauded as equaling Edward R. Murrow’s.
To us at Covering Climate Now, Bill was of course a giant of journalism. But he was also a beloved colleague, mentor, and hero. In fact, without Bill, there would be no CCNow.
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