Bill Moyers Journal (2007-2010); Obama's First Year; America's Energy Challenge; A Poem and Hope for Haiti

January 22, 2010

Faced with the increasing global demand for oil and the threat of climate change, America needs a new energy policy. Bill Moyers is joined by Public Agenda analysts Jean Johnson and Scott Bittle to discuss why we should "work the problem" rather than listening to extremes on either side. Johnson and Bittle are co-authors of WHO TURNED OUT THE LIGHTS? YOUR GUIDED TOUR TO THE ENERGY CRISIS. And Princeton politics and African American studies professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell and journalist Eric Alterman offer their perspectives on the state of the union a year into the Obama administration. 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.