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The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.
Bill Moyers
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Bill Moyers
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: June 5
Former White House Press Secretary
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Hugo
Oklahoma
Billy Don Moyers
Billy Moyers
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