Bill Moyers Dead at 91

Bill Moyers, a longtime liberal voice in American media and a key figure in President Lyndon B. Johnson’s White House, has died at the age of 91. Known for blurring the lines between journalism and activism, Moyers spent more than four decades pushing a progressive agenda through taxpayer-funded public television.

Before his media career, Moyers served as a close aide and press secretary to LBJ, helping to usher in the controversial Great Society programs including Medicare, Medicaid, the Civil Rights Act, and the so-called War on Poverty, which ballooned government size and spending with mixed results.

Moyers later used his platform on PBS to criticize everything from Wall Street and climate policy to American foreign affairs and conservative politics, often taking what critics called an "activist approach" to journalism.

• He ran PBS programs like Bill Moyers' Journal and Now with Bill Moyers, blending opinion with public broadcasting on taxpayer dollars.

• Moyers supported groups and causes pushing climate alarmism, wealth redistribution, and media regulation.

• During his time in LBJ’s administration, Moyers reportedly used the FBI to target political enemies, including a role in wiretapping Martin Luther King Jr., according to CBS correspondent Morley Safer.

Despite his polished media image, Moyers’ political roots were deep and partisan. While working for Johnson, he reportedly planted press questions and leaked stories to shape narratives tactics critics now liken to deep state media manipulation.

After leaving the Johnson White House in 1967 disillusioned by the Vietnam War Moyers briefly served as publisher of Newsday, which won two Pulitzer Prizes under his leadership. But he left after being deemed “too liberal.”

That label would stick. Through his work with PBS and later his own production company, Moyers championed progressive causes with little pretense of neutrality. He railed against “corporate greed,” backed environmental activism, and pushed government-centric solutions to nearly every societal issue.

Moyers is survived by his wife Judith and their three children.

His legacy will no doubt be praised by the liberal media establishment, but for many Americans, Moyers was less journalist than propagandist a man who never quite let go of his days in the West Wing and used public airwaves to promote his ideological vision.

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