Bill Moyers Journal Takes on the Mainstream Media and Delivers Outside-The-Beltway Perspective With Two Episodes in a Special Premiere Week on PBS

Bill Moyers Journal Takes on the Mainstream Media and Delivers Outside-The-Beltway Perspective With Two Episodes in a Special Premiere Week on PBS

A special premiere documentary 'Buying the War' airs Wednesday, April 25 at 9 p.m.

Bill Moyers Journal airs Friday night at 9, including interviews with Jon Stewart and influential political blogger Josh Marshall of talkingpointsmemo.com

The Moyers Blog launches at pbs.org/moyers

NEW YORK, April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Veteran Journalist Bill Moyers returns to PBS with the new weekly series Bill Moyers Journal, airing Friday nights at 9 on PBS (check local listings). The series premieres at a special time on Wednesday, April 25 at 9 p.m. with "Buying the War," a 90-minute documentary that explores the role of the press in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq. Two days later on Friday, April 27 at 9 p.m., Bill Moyers Journal features interviews with two influential voices from outside the beltway-The Daily Show host Jon Stewart and political blogger Josh Marshall of talkingpointsmemo.com.

"We follow up Wednesday's documentary, which is chock full of mainstream mea culpa from inside the beltway, with two guys who have been skeptical of the official line coming out of Washington, albeit in different ways." says Moyers. "The popularity of Jon Stewart and Josh Marshall demonstrates an appetite for alternative voices for authentic information and analysis and a turn away from the uncritical thinking on much of the cable and network news."

Comedian Jon Stewart, the anchor of the Emmy and Peabody award-winning The Daily Show for eight years, speaks to Moyers about his unique take on the world, the nation and politics in Washington and consider why his program has become so successful.

Joshua Micah Marshall, publisher of the widely-read Talking Points Memo, TPMCafe, and TPMmuckraker.com, gives his perspective on role of politics in the recent firings of federal prosecutors.

Preview clips available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl3zs7069UQ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Kngf803dQ

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CONTACT: Rick Byrne, +1-212-560-8406, byrner@thirteen.org, or Diane
Domondon, +1-212-560-8530, domondond@thirteen.org, both of Public Affairs
Television

Web site:

http://www.pbs.org/now
http://www.pbs.org/moyers
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl3zs7069UQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Kngf803dQ

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