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    Earmarks
    Bill Moyers Journal
    t r u t h o u t | Programming Note

    Wednesday 20 February 2008

    Airtime: Friday, February 22, 2008, at 9:00 PM (ET) on PBS (check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html).

    "Bill Moyers Journal" and the PBS series "Expose: America's Investigative Reports" offer a hard and fresh look at how earmarks really work. Watch a preview. The broadcast profiles Seattle Times reporters on 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 PACs have made campaign contributions to the legislators. The segment also focuses on how earmarks for some products were added to the defense appropriations bill even in cases in which the military didn't want them in the first place. For example, a $4.65 million patrol boat the Coast Guard hadn't even asked for and decided it couldn't use was eventually given away by the Coast Guard to a California sheriff's office. David Heath of the Seattle Times says: "They're selling a product to the military that they're not even using." The segment will be available for viewing before the broadcast at www.pbs.org/expose and airs on "Bill Moyers Journal" on Friday, February 22. Viewers can post questions for Seattle Times reporters after the broadcast at The Moyers Blog at www.pbs.org/moyers. Expose will premiere a new episode one Friday per month as part of "Bill Moyers Journal," which airs Fridays at 9 PM on PBS (check local listings).