NOW
A weekly show including documentary reporting, in-depth one-on-one interviews and articulate commentary from a wide variety of media-makers and those behind the headlines. The series shed light on a wide range of issues confronting the nation, including the Enron scandal, corporate tax havens, conflict in the Middle East, and the Wars on Terror and Iraq. NOW also explored American culture through interviews with major authors, religious leaders, and artists. Bill Moyers, one of America’s foremost journalists, added his voice to insightful documentary reporting, breaking news analysis, and articulate commentary. Essential viewing for the engaged citizen, NOW viewers are informed and challenged by the series, which provides insight into the important issues facing the nation and the globe. Each week, NOW provided viewers with the necessary context to explore their relationship to larger issues and to make sense out of the events shaping our time. (2002-2004)
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EDITORS' PICKS
January 9, 2004 | NOWThe money influencing the 2004 presidential election, a look at whether American corporations should be held accountable for business dealings overseas, and a Muslim activist trying to change her religion.
January 16, 2004 | NOWBill talks with journalists who wrote a behind-the-scenes book on the media, invented fact-check style journalism and defied gender barriers.
January 23, 2004 | NOWThe powerful forces keeping the US from signing an environmental treaty, and behind-the-scenes looks at what conservative leaders and people in New Hampshire really want from the presidential election.
January 30, 2004 | NOWAn investigation into the back-room deals giving Big Media more control than ever over what Americans consume and read, and a look at what it would take for Democrats to reclaim the South.
February 6, 2004 | NOWActivists work to rile up political engagement and NOW takes a look at manufacturing job losses and political advertising.
February 6, 2004In this 2004 interview, Bill spoke with the then-Harvard law professor about America's struggling, over-indebted middle class.
February 13, 2004 | NOWTalk radio's power to influence policy and and shape elections, indecency on the airwaves and the truth behind the tax code.
February 27, 2004 | NOWIn an increasingly security-conscious America, is the government taking aim at our civil liberties? And unlikely allies in the fight to protect a California community.
March 5, 2004 | NOWA look at whether law enforcement is abusing its power by spying on the lawful activities of ordinary citizens, and a conversation with an inspirational minister.
March 12, 2004 | NOWThis NOW episode offers frank insight into the complicated psyche of the 'Where the Wild Things Are' author.
March 12, 2004Bill gives viewers a look into the private world of Maurice Sendak in an unexpectedly candid interview.
March 19, 2004 | NOWWhat Mark Twain can teach us about the challenges facing America today, and the Latinization of American culture.
March 26, 2004 | NOWThe use of public education money to support private schools, covering the 9/11 hearings as a White House correspondent, and the insanity of CEO pay.
April 2, 2004Bill talks to former Nixon Administration counsel John Dean about White House secrecy and presidential accountability during the Bush administration.
April 2, 2004 | NOWIs America on the threshold of a new nuclear arms race? And John Dean has written a new book – his sixth – in which he concludes that the obsessive secrecy and deception in Washington today is “Worse Than Watergate.”
