Overview

• Major outlets hailed Moyers’s contributions after his death in late June at age 91, underscoring his early role in shaping PBS’s mission for public debate
• His 1987 PBS special The Secret Government and 2007 documentary Buying the War have been cited as landmark investigations exposing government and media failures
• Conservative commentators at publications like The Daily Signal renewed allegations that Moyers used taxpayer-funded media to advance left-leaning agendas
• Over his decades-long career, Moyers received more than 30 Emmy Awards, 11 Peabody Awards and two Columbia-DuPont honors for his documentaries and interviews
• Moyers long warned that reliance on federal funding risked self-censorship at NPR and PBS and advocated establishing an independent trust fund to protect editorial freedom