Bill Moyers, who followed a tenure as a young top aide to Lyndon Johnson with a long career as a much-acclaimed journalist and commentator on public broadcasting, has died. He was 91.
The cause was complications from prostate cancer, his son, William Cope Moyers, told The Washington Post.
His shows, including Now with Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal and Moyers & Company, were insightful, in-depth and often hard-hitting about the state of current events, a contrast to the attention-grabbing aspects of corporate media.
Having founded his own production company in 1986, Moyers’s productions included Healing and the Mind, The Language of Life, Genesis, On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying, Moyers on Addiction: Close to Home and America’s First River. Few were as enduring as Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, a 1988 series with the author.
Moyers stepped away from his digital venture in 2017, telling audiences, to “please remain vigilant and engaged as citizens in the civic and political life of your community and our country. Democracy is fragile, and no one can say with certainty that it can withstand the manifold risks to which it is now exposed.”
