The port of what is supposed to be a little smile, a journalist Bill Moyers hosts acknowledging that, yes, twice while in the last ten years, has launched a series of questions known public television, which was then called 'He left, professing to do with the television - which launch another problem with these a couple of years later.
He does it again. At 77 years, this "citizen journalist" self-proclaimed king-engages with his audience when "Moyers & Company" on the first public television stations across the country this weekend (check the time, date and channel).
"We're not going to declare this vast field, we do not do stories high production value this time", he says, admitting that "Moyers & Company" will be a bit 'thin-and-say for the past as in the series "Bill Moyers Journal "(2007-2010) and before that," Now with Bill Moyers "(2002 to 2004).
But "Moyers & Company" will be gratefully received by those who have followed his television career began forty years ago, after several years with President Lyndon Johnson, he served as special assistant and press officer, and after a stint as vice Director of the Peace Corps, and after a career as publisher of Newsday newspaper on Long Island. (Resume Texas native also has a doctorate in theology is an ordained Baptist minister.)
"` Moyers & Company "will mainly explore my ideas of others, and intelligence, and experience," he said in his hushed, almost pastoral tone.
This brand new hours per week promises to be equally important, thoughtful and distant in his interest that his television projects of the past, on topics ranging from politics to poetry, and a nuanced approach that challenges the polarization endemic to most television interview programs.
Curiously, Moyers has decided to leave the television as a newcomer to the TV. Then, in her 30s, was the guest of a public television interview show called "This Week with Bill Moyers," but could not really break the style of television.
"This is not working," recalls his producer told him that season for the first painful. "You're not a funeral!"
"I was ready to retire," Moyers recalled, "and return to newspapering."
But the producer urged him to give another chance and when he was in the air, to imagine he was talking to one person familiar. She chose her grandmother.
"And it is work," he said. "It 'was a turning point." Next season, the program was renamed "Bill Moyers Journal" and began to take hold.
Only years later that Moyers said his grandmother, was designated as the viewer is put on a show.
"But I was curious," he asked. "Did you watch?"
"He said, 'Oh, I never missed a program." And I said: `What do you think? And she said, 'I thought you were so beautiful! "
Moyers laugh with affection. "No matter what I said!"
But Moyers has always had. But no excuse for his liberal views, is a humanist who explores the world with a calm, rational perspective and curiosity in the service of his solid audience: "I will turn the corner and run into an idea and I say 'I have to share that. I must tell others about it. "
No wonder TV has always had a special invitation for him siren. Over and over again.
When he returned to television in April 2007, has dusted off the name of "Bill Moyers Journal" of 1972, which "seemed appropriate for this last round," he said at the time, there was the final stage.
So it was not.
"I could not really tell you why I came back," Moyers says now, during an interview at the offices of midtown Manhattan Public Affairs Television, the production company he founded a quarter century ago with his wife, Judith Davidson Moyers. "Except, nothing was more interesting. I did a little 'writing and speaking, but I like television. It allows me to work with colleagues and friends. And I blew and I had energy and I had some donors."
Over the years, public television has raised questions every penny for its hundreds of hours of documentaries and series, and there was a donor, ready to Moyers word was ready to slip out of retirement again.
"The Carnegie Foundation primed the pump," he says, "and in four weeks that I raise the money."
"Moyers & Company" was funded for two years at that point, Moyers said, will be 80 and probably finally retired (or believe or not).
The series will be mostly interviews - or, in Moyers' hands, meaty conversations.
But the first three hours are in fact an independent documentary inspired when, in the summer of 2010, Moyers found out the "winner-take-all politics: how Washington made the rich richer and turned their backs on the middle class" by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson.
The book of "inequality we met, as it was designed and politically," says Bill Moyers. "Most people think that was the result of globalization and the invisible hand of free market. But it was actually created by political decisions in Washington under the influence of powerful actors in the business and finance."
Moyers has met the two authors who have agreed to cooperate in the production of the documentary. Last fall, Moyers interviewed them on camera. He also sent a crew down to occupy the site of Manhattan Wall Street, where they have been inundated with self-identified members of 99 percent.
"Through this process," says Bill Moyers, that sounds like an ex-smoker who has taken a couple of puffs and was caught again, "I decided to return with a weekly series.
"Things just happened," he summarizes with a laugh sweet ", and I could not say no to knock on the door, I could have been a success -.. But I could not say no"
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