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Graham himself does not always turn the other cheek. When, a few days later, he was told Bill Moyers' remark that it "was not easy to sup with power and get up without spots," Graham replied: "Bill would certainly know about that ... He's supped with power quite...
Moyers, given unprecedented leeway at CBS, is a different matter. Bright, ambitious and articulate, he set out to be a Baptist preacher, became Lyndon Johnson's press secretary, and has built up a considerable television following, almost a cult, for his documentaries. At 47, he is on the way...
What frustrates him most, he says, is that in 1 min. 45 sec. it is difficult with a complex matter to "build a case for the point you make." Once when Rather gave him five minutes to talk about an Alaska pipeline bill, Moyers concluded: "On this bill, the two...
There is a restlessness about Moyers' career, a sense of peaks unsealed but longed for. Is it the political urge, which has tempted him several times? Moyers denies it: "I have taken the vow. When I finish all this, I hope to go teach." But he knows that people...
Maybe a central problem, for Chancellor as for Moyers, is that illustrated commentary blurs the distinction between news and opinion. The difficulty is television's strange mismatch of eye and ear: the ear often skeptically disputes what it is told, but the eye accepts as reality the picture before...