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Three cheers for Bill Moyers [May 3]. Perhaps President Reagan is fighting back because he knows he has something to feel guilty about. If Reagan is remembered for anything, it will be the expediency with which he has made "poverty" a household reality.
Sometimes Bill Moyers as commentator sits at Dan Rather's elbow; a few nights later he can be doing a stand-up broadcast in a Warsaw square, newly arrived but confident and omniscient as ever. Over at NBC, John Chancellor, no longer at the anchorman's desk but...
One of Ronald Reagan's favorite rhetorical devices is the vivid example-a "welfare queen" ripping off the system, a school lunch program providing meals to affluent children-that purports to exemplify a pervasive national problem. Such anecdotage, critics claim, tends to oversimplify and distort complex situations. But the...
Moyers, a Texas-bred liberal who was President Johnson's press secretary, insisted his documentary was not meant as an attack on the Administration. Said he: "It simply told a few real stories about people falling through the safety net." The result was nonetheless a devastating but unbalanced indictment...
In lashing out at Moyers' one-sided presentation, however, the Administration might have shot itself in the foot. The show captured only a 17% share of the audience throughout the country. By making a fuss, the White House called attention not only to the documentary but to its own...