Bill Moyers bids farewell to television

Although Moyers is nominally retiring -- he and his wife of 50 years, Judith Davidson Moyers, will continue to produce documentaries -- it is doubtful he will go silent. A day after the telephone interview from his Manhattan production studio, he sent a draft by e-mail of his final remarks on "Now." In the note that accompanied the draft, Moyers continued to circle like a warplane, pumping round after round into its intended targets.
"I learned the hard way an old lesson that the greatest moments in the history of the press came not when journalists made common cause with the state but when they stood fearlessly independent of it," he said. "Now we have those megamedia companies that won't speak truth to power and an ideological media that willingly lies for power. Scary!"