Bill Moyers Journal
Description
Journalism's job is to cover the news, but it's the work of investigative reporters to uncover the news powerful people prefer to keep hidden, says Bill Moyers. This edition of the Journal takes a hard and fresh look at how earmarks really work with "Mr. Heath Goes to Washington," a segment produced with the public TV series Exposé: America's Investigative Reports. It profiles Seattle Times reporters on the trail of how members of Congress have awarded federal dollars for questionable purposes to companies in local Congressional districts. Also on the program, Sarah Chayes, author of The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban, offers a penetrating look at the front lines of the ongoing war in Afghanistan.
Runtime
56 min 40 sec
Subjects
Contributor
Geography
Database
Films on Demand
Direct Link
Similar Films
Why This Poet Couldn’t Avoid Writing About The Opioid Crisis
Bill Moyers Journal
Mass Media, Functionalist
Mass Media, Interactionist
Life magazine's best photojournalists tell their stories
Think like a global citizen. How has bias impacted how we see world events? News literacy
War spin. Media and Iraq war
Episode 4, Family Ties (Louis Theroux, Life on the Edge)
Military and the news media. A question of access
Covering the world. Reports without borders
News hounds
The big picture. The muckrakers
The Powers That Be, 1960-1975
Remembering Fred Friendly. Changing the Face of TV News
Murder on a Sunday Morning