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1. #Shallowness is the same world wide

2. #Superficial is the same world wide

3. #HandWaving simplistic small thinking patterns of Dismissal and Superficial responses, react commenting, are the same World Wide

Published year 1988, age 83 :

CAMPBELL: But in the Bible, eternity withdraws, and nature is corrupt, nature has fallen. In biblical thinking, we live in exile.

#BILLMOYERS : As we sit here and talk, there is one story after another of car bombings in Beirut—by the Muslims of the Christians, by the Christians of the Muslims, and by the Christians of the Christians. It strikes me that Marshall McLuhan was right when he said that television has made a global village of the world—but he didn’t know the global village would be Beirut. What does that say to you?

CAMPBELL: It says to me that they don’t know how to apply their religious ideas to contemporary life, and to human beings rather than just to their own community. It’s a terrible example of the failure of religion to meet the modern world. These three mythologies are fighting it out. They have disqualified themselves for the future.

BILL MOYERS: What kind of new myth do we need?

CAMPBELL: We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet. A model for that is the United States. Here were thirteen different little colony nations that decided to act in the mutual interest, without disregarding the individual interests of any one of them.

BILL MOYERS: There is something about that on the Great Seal of the United States.

CAMPBELL: That’s what the Great Seal is all about. I carry a copy of the Great Seal in my pocket in the form of a dollar bill.

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Happy birthday to #ToniMorrison, acclaimed novelist and the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

In 1990, Morrison sat down with #BillMoyers on “A World of Ideas” to discuss literature, life, and love.

Watch the full interview in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting: https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-d3ceb8f9079

A World of Ideas; 207; Toni Morrison Part 1 of 2

Toni Morrison, author of JAZZ, SONG OF SOLOMON and the Pulitzer Prize-winning BELOVED, discusses the characters in her work, the people in her life, and the power of how the invented world of fiction connects to life. Award(s) won: Silver Apple-National Film and Video Festival A WORLD OF IDEAS with Bill Moyers aired in 1988 and 1990. The half-hour episodes featured scientists, writers, artists, philosophers, historians -- some well-known, many never before seen on television.

American Archive of Public Broadcasting

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Dec 29

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=toI32-KZp5o

#DemocracyNow

Remembering #BillMoyers

Remembering Bill Moyers: PBS Icon on Corruption of Corporate Media and Power of Public Broadcasting

YouTube

Variety [Unofficial]Oct 28

Documentary on Journalist Bill Moyers in the Works From Kathleen Hughes and Tom Casciato

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://variety.com/2025/film/news/bill-moyers-documentary-1236563573/

Variety Oct 28

Documentary on Journalist Bill Moyers in the Works From Kathleen Hughes and Tom Casciato
#Variety #News #BillMoyers #DocumentariestoWatch #PBS

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/bill-moyers-documentary-1236563573/

Bill Moyers To Be Subject of New Documentary Film

A new documentary film will focus on legendary journalist and White House press secretary Bill Moyers

Variety

DrWeb Jun 29, 2025

Passage: Remembering Bill Moyers – CBS Sunday Morning – June 29, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L55mGIYgtPo&ab_channel=CBSSundayMorning

Passage: Remembering Bill Moyers
CBS Sunday Morning

Jun 29, 2025
“Sunday Morning” host Lee Cowan looks back on the career of broadcast journalist Bill Moyers, who brought dignity and elegance to TV news, at CBS and on public television, for more than four decades, following years as a deputy director of the Peace Corps and a White House press secretary.

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William Lindsey

Jul 6, 2025

"that politics failed and we wound up in the Civil War, from which we still haven’t recovered.… Being a Southerner informed me about what happens when a society closes the wagons around itself, when it doesn’t tolerate good journalism or prophecy in the pulpit or truth-telling in the classroom."

#BillMoyers #courage #TruthTelling #journalism
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William Lindsey

Jul 6, 2025

Alterman quotes an interview Moyers did with Salon in 2003:

"I think my life, and certainly my career in journalism, have been informed by two things. One was being a Southerner. Whenever you learned about Southern life, you realize that when we drove the truth-tellers out of the pulpits, out of the editorial rooms and out of the classrooms—people who were telling the truth about slavery—"

#BillMoyers #courage #TruthTelling #journalism
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William Lindsey

Jul 6, 2025

Eric Alterman offers a touching reminiscence of his friend journalist Bill Moyers, noting:

"This ordained Baptist minister from a little town called Marshall, Texas, somehow became, for most practical purposes, my rabbi."

Alterman asks where Moyers got the fortitude to stick to his difficult and solitary path when he was very much a voice crying in the wilderness, especially in his native South.

#BillMoyers #courage #TruthTelling #journalism
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https://newrepublic.com/article/197400/bill-moyers-dead-obituary-three-careers-excelled

Bill Moyers Had Three Careers and Excelled at Every One of Them

The Baptist minister from Texas became this New York Jew’s rabbi. How lucky was I?

The New Republic

Flipboard News Desk Jul 4, 2025

Bill Moyers, the legendary PBS journalist and White House press secretary to Lyndon B. Johnson, died last week at age 91. His obituaries talked about his incredible life — born to a dirt farmer in Oklahoma, ordained a Baptist minister, present on Air Force One after the Kennedy assassination. But Mother Jones CEO Monika Bauerlein, who knew Moyers via his work with the Center for Investigative Reporting, says there's another story to tell. "Moyers knew Trump was not an aberration, but the logical extension of a problem that went back decades," she writes. "Corruption, he wrote me, is 'a condition beyond individual scandals — more a totality of governance, a philosophy that says democracy exists for us to take what we can while we can—to hell with the law, rules, norms and the country. It’s the crime family manifesto of the mafia, affixed to the civic life and public affairs of the nation.'"

How best to honor his integrity, intelligence and commitment to truth and good journalism? "The best — and only — way to pay tribute to him is to go out and do the work," Bauerlein concludes.

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#BillMoyers #InMemoriam #Journalism #News #Media #MediaIndustry #RIP

The Bill Moyers that obituaries missed

The “secular preacher” of TV journalism was also a ferocious critic of corrupt politicians and corporate titans—and the spineless media that enable them.

Mother Jones