Subject: Bill Moyers on a.r.s. (sort of)
Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 15:47:44 -0000
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Bill Moyers, liberal journalist on PBS, last night responded to people claiming he was a whiner, like Scientologists claim most of a.r.s. is. Moyers responded:
Do we delight in the dark side of human experience, you ask? Do we never see good in the world? I can only speak for myself, of course. And I confess to thinking of journalism as the social equivalent to a medical diagnosis.
My doctor owes me candor;
I pay him for it. Candor could save my life.
I like to think journalists are paid for candor, too; society needs to know what could kill us, whether it's too many lies or too much pollution. Napoleon left instructions that he was not to be awakened if the news from the front were good; with good news, he told his secretary, there is no hurry. But if the news were bad, he said, "rouse me instantly, for then there is not a moment to be lost." Think of journalism as a kind of early warning system;
iceberg spotting in the choppy waters of democracy.
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