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
July 23, 2004 | NOWA hard look at how local broadcasters cover politics; the success or failure of the 9-11 commission; and a look ahead at the 2004 Democratic Convention.
July 30, 2004 | NOWThis 2004 NOW episode looked at whether America was at risk for a repeat of the 2000 election debacle, and considered Democrats' struggle to determine how America should act in a post-9/11 world.
August 6, 2004 | NOWThrough this episode of NOW's focus on art and politics, we learn about John Sayles' feature film about a corrupt governor, Jehane Noujaim's documentary on Al-Jazeera, and Sarah Jones' one-woman show.
August 13, 2004 | NOWA look inside a high school that offers last chances to new immigrants, foster children with no permanent home, students who've chronically failed and teenage mothers struggling to make a better life.
August 20, 2004 | NOWAn analysis of the 2004 presidential election and its campaign ads, and Lou Dobbs gives a candid look at what caused his change of heart from devout capitalist to crusader for American workers.
August 27, 2004 | NOWA behind-the-scenes look at the lavish convention parties the Democrats and Republicans don't want you to see, 2004 political analysis, and a conversation about the impact of incarceration on black men.
September 10, 2004 | NOWHow was the most powerful nation on Earth so utterly unprepared to protect its homeland?
September 17, 2004 | NOWA look at the workers and community leaders being uprooted to serve in the National Guard, a conversation about Dan Rathers and the George W. Bush controversy, and a global warming prediction.
September 24, 2004 | NOWA look at the secretive process by which party handlers ensure presidential debates are void of real discussion of the issues, and the effect of the Bush tax cuts on our mounting national deficit.
September 24, 2004This 2004 NOW report explores how the rules of presidential debates have been hijacked by the major political parties.
October 1, 2004 | NOWHow does the reality on the ground in Iraq compare to the political rhetoric at the presidential debate? And the fight to protect the Rocky Mountain Front from drilling.
October 8, 2004 | NOWWe hear from four candidates excluded from presidential debates: Ralph Nader (Reform Party), Michael Peroutka (Constitution Party), David Cobb (Green Party), and Michael Badnarik (Libertarian Party).
October 15, 2004 | NOWNOW and Michele Mitchell consider issues that are important to single women and might get them to the polls, and civil rights litigator Judith Browne discusses concerning voter suppression strategies.
October 22, 2004 | NOWNOW considers the realities of the 2004 jobs recovery, which some say was meaningless because of lower wages, and looks at how religion is employed by the campaigns as the election closes in.
October 29, 2004 | NOWNOW deconstructs the road to war in Iraq through the eyes of a critical intelligence insider, Greg Thielmann, and considers the state of conservatism and progressivism in America.
