Bill Moyers recently interviewed a member of the Center for Media and Democracy about how evil the health insurance industry is. Brent Bozell reports that Moyers failed to disclose that he helps provide funding for CMD:

A man named Wendell Potter was the star of the hour on PBS's "Bill Moyers Journal" on July 10. Potter used to be a spokesman for the insurance giant Cigna. He painted a picture of gilded excess. "I was served my lunch by a flight attendant who brought my lunch on a gold-rimmed plate. And she handed me gold-plated silverware to eat it with." Sitting in a spacious corporate jet, he said he was overcome by guilt at the gap between his creature comforts and the health struggles of the poor and uninsured. [...] CMD's website touts a rapturous endorsement from....none other than Bill Moyers. "[N]ot a day goes by that I don't go to their website for a stirring encounter with the truth of America. You should visit their website," Moyers told the crowd of a CMD reception in Manhattan in 2005. "They do the best journalism about what is really happening in this country to our media system. I couldn't exist as a journalist without it, nor would I want to as a citizen. It arms me with the information that I need, reporting that I need to make the case I want to make about our society." In the interest of full disclosure, should not he have told his PBS audience of his public association with this group? Yes, unless you're Bill Moyers. Then there's another hidden layer. Moyers is more than a public endorser of CMD. He's been a financial supporter, through his other job as the president of the Schumann Center for Media & Democracy (formerly the Schumann Foundation). This interview is merely the latest in a long line of Moyers PBS interviews that he hands out like candy to his Schumann grantees - without disclosing the glaring conflict of interest to the viewers or the taxpayers. Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard nailed Moyers to the wall on this hypocrisy back in 2003, and Moyers is still shamelessly practicing it. He told Hayes that he always disclosed the fact when a Schumann grantee appeared on his programs. That was a falsehood. This program was just the latest proof of this PBS host's habit of lying by omission.

You can read Hayes's articles on Moyers here and here. If you can't get enough, also check out this piece by Andrew Ferguson. Though it occurs to me that conservatives may be going a bit too hard on Moyers. Last year, he said that "God-soaked violence became genetically coded" in Jews and Arabs, so maybe it's possible that Moyers was born with the shameless left-wing hackery gene, and there's not much he can do about it.