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NOW with Bill Moyers Friday, September 17 at 9PM on PBS (Check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html) ================================================================== This week on a NOW: * Citizen GI blues. With more and more National Guard troops being shipped overseas to fight, David Brancaccio looks at how their families and communities are also paying a price in THE CALL TO WAR. * Black eye? Bill Moyers talks to NOW's analysts Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Kevin Phillips about the flap over CBS and what it says about the volatile mix of media and politics. * In country. After watching the Pentagon burn on 9/11 Richard Murphy was on a mission-he joined the Army Reserves and then was sent to Iraq. After 15 months on the ground, what does he say about the mission now? A David Brancaccio Interview. * Things are heating up. Bill Moyers profiles an experiment in the Rocky Mountains, giving us a glimpse into the future if global warming goes unchecked in WARMER AND WARMER. =================================================================== THE CALL TO WAR >From cities and towns across America, local National Guard units are being called to duty in extraordinary numbers and sent overseas to fight in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, governors from several states have started to speak out, worried that these citizen-soldiers are shouldering too much of today's military burden at the expense of their families and communities. David Brancaccio travels to Iowa, which in the last two years has experienced the largest National Guard mobilization since World War II, to uncover the impact of war on small-town America, where workers and community leaders are being uprooted, and families are being torn apart for conflicts abroad. The report includes the poignant story of a married couple struggling with leaving their children behind as they prepare to ship out. =================================================================== KATHLEEN HALL JAMIESON AND KEVIN PHILLIPS The row over the authenticity of documents unearthed by 60 MINUTES' Dan Rather about President Bush's National Guard service continues as CBS blinked this week after squaring off with critics. Is a detrimental mix of media and politics burying the real issues facing America? Bill Moyers gets the perspectives of NOW's regular analysts, media expert Kathleen Hall Jamieson and author Kevin Phillips. =================================================================== RICHARD MURPHY Less than a week after watching the Pentagon burn from his Washington, DC apartment window, Richard Murphy was compelled to serve his country and set out to join the Army Reserves. In February 2003, as an MP, Murphy was on his way to Iraq. His tour saw stints in combat patrols, as a police academy trainer, as a machine gunner, and as a member of a military police brigade assigned to Abu Ghraib prison. What he saw in Iraq changed him. And while Murphy still believes in the mission, David Brancaccio sits down with him to find out if what he saw on the ground has changed his view of the war. =================================================================== WARMER AND WARMER NOW gives viewers an intimate look at how global warming may affect one of the most beautiful areas of America--the high meadows of the Rocky Mountains. Take a step into what may be a frightening future as the earth's temperature continues to rise in this profile of UC Berkeley scientist John Harte, who has been simulating higher temperatures in the Rocky Mountains to gauge what some extraordinary vistas may look like if global warming continues at its predicted pace. =================================================================== NOW WITH BILL MOYERS continues online at PBS.org (www.pbs.org/now). Log on to the site to learn more about the challenges facing National Guard men and women today - including the Stop Loss policy and healthcare funding for National Guard and Army Reserve families; to find out where your local unit is deployed with our National Guard Resource Map; to get a history of America's citizen soldiers; to explore both sides of the climate change debate; to read a Q & A with UC Berkeley scientist John Harte; to see where the candidates stand on global warming; and more. Also, respond to the NOW Online's Quote of the Week at http://www.pbs.org/now/php/quotes.php =================================================================== Hosted by Bill Moyers and David Brancaccio, NOW has been called "...one of the last bastions of serious journalism on TV" by the Austin-American Statesmen and "...public television at its best" by the Philadelphia Inquirer. Each week, the series sheds light on a wide range of issues confronting the nation and explores American democracy and culture through investigative reporting and interviews with major authors, leading thinkers, and artists. _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar � get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ Yahoo! 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