{"id":134226,"date":"2019-06-03T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=134226"},"modified":"2019-05-25T09:33:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T08:33:51","slug":"what-greed-has-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/06\/what-greed-has-done\/","title":{"rendered":"What Greed Has Done"},"content":{"rendered":"

1 May 2019 – Real Journalism (Must Watch)
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Bill Moyers interviews former correspondent of <\/em>New York Times Chris Hedges about his new book, <\/em>Days of Destruction–Days of Revolt, on the destruction of America’s manufacturing base and <\/em>the effect that unfettered and unregulated capitalism has had on the poor and vulnerable.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The song at the end is Woody Guthrie: \u00ab<\/em>This Land Is Your Land\u00bb.<\/em><\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6w-DVGWVhIw
\nChris Hedges spent nearly two decades<\/strong> as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for <\/em>The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and<\/em> The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years. Hedges was part of the team of reporters at <\/em>The New York Times awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the paper\u2019s coverage of global terrorism. He also received the <\/em>Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002. The <\/em>Los Angeles Press Club honored Hedges\u2019 original columns in <\/em>Truthdig by naming the author the Online Journalist of the Year in 2009 and again in 2011. The LAPC also granted him the Best Online Column award in 2010 for his <\/em>Truthdig essay \u201cOne Day We\u2019ll All Be Terrorists<\/a>.\u201d Hedges is a senior fellow at <\/em>The Nation Institute in New York City and has taught at Columbia University, New York University and Princeton University. He currently teaches inmates at a correctional facility in New Jersey.<\/em><\/p>\n

Journalist Bill Moyers is the managing editor of <\/em><\/strong>Moyers & Company and <\/em>BillMoyers.com<\/a>. His previous shows on <\/em>PBS included <\/em>NOW with Bill Moyers and <\/em>Bill Moyers Journal. Over the past three decades he has become an icon of American journalism and is the author of many books, including <\/em>Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues<\/a>, Moyers on Democracy<\/a>, and <\/em>Bill Moyers: On Faith & Reason<\/a>.He was one of the organizers of the Peace Corps, a special assistant for Lyndon B. Johnson, a publisher of <\/em>Newsday, senior correspondent for <\/em>CBS News and a producer of many groundbreaking series on public television. He is the winner of more than 30 Emmys, nine Peabodys, three George Polk awards and is the author of three best-selling books.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 May 2019 – Real Journalism (Must Watch): Bill Moyers interviews former correspondent of New York Times Chris Hedges about his new book, Days of Destruction–Days of Revolt, on the destruction of America’s manufacturing base and the effect that unfettered and unregulated capitalism has had on the poor and vulnerable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[229,232,120,331,354,401,267,378,234,109,287,985,70,126,118,172],"class_list":["post-134226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-activism","tag-capitalism","tag-conflict","tag-development","tag-economics","tag-environment","tag-geopolitics","tag-journalism","tag-media","tag-politics","tag-power","tag-social-justice","tag-usa","tag-violence","tag-war","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}