Bill Moyers rebukes PBS over network's decision not to air impeachment proceedings in prime time
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The Public Broadcasting Service is our country’s channel. When President Richard Nixon’s impeachment hearings took place in 1973, PBS ran replays of the hearings all evening long. It proved a rousing success as millions of American households, home frBill Moyers rebukes PBS over network's decision not to air impeachment proceedings in prime time
The Public Broadcasting Service is our country’s channel. When President Richard Nixon’s impeachment hearings took place in 1973, PBS ran replays of the hearings all evening long. It proved a rousing success as millions of American households, home from work, watched as the ugly inner workings of Nixon’s administration came into focus. One would expect PBS to not simply do the national service of rebroadcasting the upcoming public impeachment hearings of Donald Trump, but also jump at the chance to drive that kind of traffic to their channel. Unfortunately, PBS says it will not change its normal prime time programming to replay the day’s hearings, opting to send the hearings onto the internet for people to pull up and find for themselves. American treasure Bill Moyers and writer Michael Winship have taken exception to this and put out a full page ad in Friday’s New York Times, calling for PBS to do the right thing and mark these historic proceedings correctly. Moyers and Winship gave a history of how PBS’ advocacy of the democratic process during the Watergate hearings shaped not only the channel, but the national conscience. Read more