Moyers & Company - Season 1 Episode 7 Where Movies End and Politics Begins
This weekend’s Moyers & Company starts with a compelling Bill Moyers Essay: Is it fair for parents to opt out of vaccinations for their children on the basis of religion or philosophy? Bill weighs the value of personal liberty versus the greater public health. Next, film historian and culture critic Neal Gabler joins Bill to discuss how representations of heroism in movies shape our expectations of a U.S. president, and how our real-world candidates are packaged into superficial, two-dimensional personas designed to appeal to both the electorate and the media. As a result, says Gabler, we never get to the true pressing questions and issues of America. Finally, Bill has a moving conversation with acclaimed poet and Poetry Magazine editor Christian Wiman about how finding true love and being diagnosed with a rare and incurable blood cancer reignited his religious passion as well as his creative expression.
First Air Date: Jan 15, 2012
Last Air date: Jan 03, 2014
Season: 2 Season
Episode: 102 Episode
Runtime: 26 minutes
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On Winner-Take-All Politics
Crony Capitalism
How Big Banks are Rewriting the Rules of Our Economy
How Do Conservatives and Liberals See the World?
Economic Malpractice and the Millennials
Decoding the Campaigns
Where Movies End and Politics Begins
Moving Beyond War
Standing Up For Democracy
Gambling With Your Money
An Optimist for Our Times
The Case for Old-School Faith & Politics
Big Money, Big Media, Big Trouble
Between Two Worlds - Life on the Border
Fighting for Fair Play on TV and Taxes
Tom Morello, Troubadour for Justice
Reckoning with Torture
Dark Money in Politics
How Big Banks Victimize Our Democracy
Confronting the Contradictions of America’s Past
Is Labor A Lost Cause?
Banking on Greed
Capitalism’s ‘Sacrifice Zones’
What It’s Like to Go to War
Suppressing the Vote
Nuns, Faith and Politics
The Resurrection of Ralph Reed
Challenging Power, Changing Politics
The One Percent Court
Elections for Sale
United States of ALEC
Hispanic America’s Turn
Justice, Not Politics
Plutocracy Rising
What’s Behind the Presidential Campaign Messages?
The Election is Over — Now What?
Hurricanes, Capitalism & Democracy
Big Media’s Power Play
Fiscal Cliffs and Fiscal Realities
Junot Díaz on Rewriting the Story of America
What We Can Learn from Lincoln
Ending the Silence on Climate Change
Paul Krugman on Why Jobs Come First
Fighting for Filibuster Reform
Foul Play in the Senate, and Today’s Abortion Debate
Are Drones Destroying our Democracy?
Who’s Widening America’s Digital Divide?
The Fight to Keep Democracy Alive
Taming Capitalism Run Wild
Fighting Creeping Creationism