Print and TV journalist Bill Moyers, 91, died on June 26. White House Press Secretary for Lyndon Johnson, Moyers helped establish PBS (now on the chopping block) in 1967. He went on to work for PBS, along with CBS and NBC, and hosted such documentaries as A Walk Through the 20th Century, Faith and Reason, In Search of the Constitution, The Home Front, The Great Healthcare Debate, Becoming American, and the series Frontline and Moyers and Company. A serious, responsible journalist, he felt that the public was "distracted by the media circus and news has been neutered or politicized for partisan purposes . . . if the press is effectively intimidated, either by the accusation of liberal bias or by a reporter's own mistaken belief in the charge's validity, the institutions that conservatives revere . . . will be able to escape scrutiny and increase their influence over American public life with relatively no challenge.
