Veteran journalist Bill Moyers appeared on CNN‘s “Reliable Sources” Sunday to reiterate his earlier call on PBS to air the impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump as part of its primetime schedule.
During the Watergate hearings against President Richard Nixon in 1973, Moyers noted, “PBS did a very brave thing and broadcast it not only during the day but at night, too,” to ensure that all Americans would have access to the historic proceedings.
Now the network, which was established as a broadcasting service for the public good and on which Moyers has aired many of his own news and commentary shows over the past four decades, must give the public “the chance to see the whole story” of “politics at its most dangerous and…most momentous.”
“Our job as journalists is to slice and dice the events of the day as they occur or the day after, usually,” Moyers told anchor Brian Stelter. “But you don’t get the whole story there. If you wanted to get the whole story, the frame of the narrative of Watergate, you needed to watch the whole hearings. If you want to get the whole story of Trumpgate, you need to watch the whole hearings.”
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