| Fifty years after the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 established the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and eventually, PBS and NPR, public media is at a crossroads. CPB is facing the possibility of being cut out of the federal budget and the Trump administration has so far demonstrated a dismissive, even confrontational attitude toward the mainstream press. While the current predicament has been sudden, it's also not the first time that public media and the press have been challenged in such ways.
Perhaps no one is more prepared to comment on these issues than Bill Moyers, one of the most recognizable figures in the history of public broadcasting. For more than four decades, Bill Moyers has been recognized as one of the unique voices of our times, with more than 30 Emmys, two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, nine Peabodys, three George Polk Awards and many other distinctions. Bill Moyers was a founding organizer and deputy director of the Peace Corps before serving as President Lyndon B. Johnson's press secretary from 1965 to 1967, where he helped contribute to the formulation of the Public Broadcasting Act.
Moyers will join KQED President John Boland for a unique discussion about the challenges currently facing the media in age of increasing hostility towards the press, and what citizens and journalists can do about it.
$20 KQED members; $25 nonmembers; $18 students. | |
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