Bill Moyers Journal (2007-2010); Mr. Heath Goes to Washington; Sarah Chayes

February 22, 2008

BILL MOYERS JOURNAL and the PBS series EXPOSÉ: AMERICA'S INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS offer a hard and fresh look at how earmarks really work. SEATTLE TIMES reporters follow the trail of how members of Congress have awarded federal dollars for questionable purposes to companies in local Congressional districts — often to companies whose executives, employees or Political Action Committees (PACs) have made campaign contributions to their legislators. And Sarah Chayes, author and former journalist who has been helping rebuild Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban regime, provides a look at the front lines of America's war there. BILL MOYERS JOURNAL -- Award-winning public affairs journalist Bill Moyers hosts this weekly series filled with fresh and original voices. Each hour-long broadcast features analysis of current issues and interviews with prominent figures from the worlds of arts and entertainment, religion, science, politics and the media.