If you currently have XM Satellite Radio, and missed this morning’s interview with Bill Moyers on The Bob Edwards Show, make sure you’re listening tonight at 9:00pm EST, 6pm in the west. If you don’t subscribe to XM, run out now, buy a radio, and activate it before tonight’s rebroadcast…or subscribe to the Internet feed at XM Radio, where you can get a free three-day ticket.

Listening to these two broadcast journalists discuss the state of reportage today is absolutely fascinating. Edwards, doing what he does best, asks the questions on the mind of the listener and then gets the hell out of the way of the answer, a talent regrettably rare in a broadcasting system where showing off the preperation of the interviewer is considered paramount.

And Moyers, who has been called the “conscience of television,” speaks about the public’s right to know, and the difficulties in fufilling that goal. While headed by Edwards as, “a parting shot,” it becomes instead a roadmap for how to fix the problems he describes.

What I admit is a little strange is to hear these two giants, both now outside the “mainstream” public broadcasting systems, promote the very systems that chewed them up and spit them out.

Seriously, if you listen to no other interview this year, listen to this one.