Bill Moyers, former White House press secretary under President Johnson, who later became a popular face on American public television, has passed away at the age of 91, as reported by international media.
Throughout his journalistic career, he worked as an editor at Newsday, a moderator of presidential debates, a correspondent and analyst on channels like CBS or NBC, and a host of shows (he even had his own, Bill Moyers Journal). All of this earned him 35 Emmy Awards and other accolades throughout his career.
In the political sphere, in the 1960s, he was the White House press secretary and one of the most trusted men of President Lyndon B. Johnson.
In an interview he gave in 2019 to CNN, while still active, he said that he "feared for the first time" in his long life for the United States, even though he had lived through World War II.
"A society, a democracy, can die from too many lies. And we are approaching that terminal moment," he said.
Many well-known and unknown faces have taken to social media to mourn his death. "Moyers stood at the crossroads between politics and public discourse. A voice of conscience in the circles of power and newsrooms in the US. His death marks the end of an era, but his influence on reflective journalism and civic narrative will endure," says a user.