Bill Moyers
From Science Besieged
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Bill Moyers is an award-winning journalist, in print and on television. Until his retirement, Moyers was host of the PBS program "Now with Bill Moyers".
More than a science advocate, Bill Moyers is an advocate of reason, common sense, and truth. Honorable speech has no clearer voice than Moyers'.
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Advocacy
There is nothing new about secret machinations to manipulate scientific findings in government reports:[1]
I felt the knife's edge some years ago when I took up the subject of pesticides and food for a Frontline documentary on PBS. My producer, Marty Koughan, learned that the industry was plotting behind the scenes to dilute the findings of a National Academy of Science study on the effect of pesticide residues in children. When the companies found out we were on the story, they came after us. Before the documentary aired television reviewers and the editorial pages of newspapers were flooded with disinformation. A whispering campaign took hold. One Washington Post columnist took a dig at the broadcast without having seen it and later confessed to me that he had gotten a bum tip about the content from a top lobbyist for the chemical industry and printed it without asking me for a response.
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Notes
- ^ Bill Moyers, "A Question for Journalists: How Do We Cover Penguins and the Politics of Denial?", keynote speech to the Society of Environmental Journalists Convention, Austin, Texas, 1 October 2005.
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Sources
- David Plotz, "Bill Moyers: The importance of being earnest", Slate, 5 April 1998.
