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This week on NOW with Bill Moyers (11/1/02)
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Thu, 31 Oct 2002 18:20:18 -0500
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NOW with Bill Moyers
Friday, November 1, 2002 at 9pm on PBS
(Check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html)
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This week on NOW...
* NOW examines the potential to restore investor trust in WHAT'S AT
STAKE?
* Bill Moyers talks to JOHN H. BIGGS, retiring Chairman and CEO of
TIAA-CREF, about the accounting industry's attempt to hijack corporate
reform in the wake of Enron.
* On the eve of what could be the most important mid-term election in
decades, NOW presents a thoughtful and challenging roundtable discussion
on how America's current system of democracy hangs in the balance in
DEMOCRACY IN DANGER.
* In FIXING DEMOCRACY, NOW talks to advocates and critics about the
movement that could make Arizona the first state to elect publicly
funded candidates to all of its statewide offices.
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WHAT'S AT STAKE?
While the country has been worrying about war with Iraq and the sniper
siege, powerful forces in Washington have conspired to undercut
important reforms in our financial world. NOW takes a look at the
controversy surrounding last Friday's selection by the SEC of the
watchdog that is supposed to police accounting firms.
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JOHN H. BIGGS
John H. Biggs is the man just about everyone wanted to be the chief of
the accounting industry oversight board, the man to keep an eye on the
books. Everyone, that is, except the industry's friends in Washington
and the White House. Biggs, retiring Chairman and CEO of TIAA-CREF has
spoken publicly and testified repeatedly to Congress about the need for
tougher regulation of accountants. In an exclusive interview, Bill
Moyers speaks with Biggs about why he was passed over for the top job
and about the selection of William H. Webster. He expresses his concern
about the report that SEC chairman Harvey L. Pitt withheld information
which may have raised concerns about Webster's appointment. Says Biggs,
"I think he has lost the confidence of the commission, and I think he's
lost the confidence of the American public. I think at this point
he should certainly be considering resignation."
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DEMOCRACY IN DANGER
The stranglehold of money over politics is just one crisis threatening
our democracy, and one of the subjects discussed in NOW's latest
roundtable discussion. "Democracy in Danger" grapples with the limits
and potential of the current two-party system through an in-depth
examination of
what's at stake for America.
Participants include: Richard Brookhiser, biographer of Founding Fathers
George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, senior editor for National
Review magazine, and contributor to the New York Observer; Jean Bethke
Elshtain, political philosopher and author of "Democracy on Trial";
Emily
Levine, Harvard-educated stand-up comedienne and philosopher; Michael
Lind, staff writer for the Globalist and senior fellow at the New
America Foundation; Manning Marable, Professor of History and Political
Science at Columbia University; Ruben Navarrette, Jr., columnist and
editorial
board member of The Dallas Morning News; and Kevin Phillips, political
analyst and historian, and author of "Wealth And Democracy."
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FIXING DEMOCRACY
Over and over again we hear the same refrain: Democracy carries a price
tag that only the wealthy can afford. Now, however, at least four
states have become laboratories for the novel idea that if anyone should
own the politicians, the people should. The idea is called "Clean
Elections"
and it involves public funding of campaigns. It's still a work in
progress, and NOW producer Greg Henry reports on how it's playing out in
the state of Arizona.
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NOW WITH BILL MOYERS continues online at PBS.org (www.pbs.org/now). Log
on to the site to read biographies of John Biggs and the roundtable
participants; view a local voting map; learn about
the clean campaign movement; see information graphics on voter turnout
worldwide and in the U.S.; read tips on how to get voters to the polls;
access a lesson plan on democracy; join the ongoing
discussion about the critical issues covered on NOW, and more.
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