Rather? Who cares?

I suppose I ought to say something about Dangerous Dan Rather-not. First, I have not watched a network news broadcast since August 1991. It’s not because the news readers (Dan, Pete, and what’s his name that took Tom’s place) are all left-wing lib ideologues, though they clearly are. It’s because by 5:30 or 6:00 pm anything they have to say is old news. I can remember when I stopped watching network news because that’s when I came into the 20th century and bought a computer. I could look at three web sites at 1:00 and know everything that was going to be on the network news. OK the Mrs. O’Leary’s cat type stories that they do would be new, but who cares.

So, that said, Dan skated. Ask any navy man, when a ship runs a ground, the skipper gets the ax. It doesn’t matter that he was asleep in his state room when the ship found the bottom, he’s a goner. Dan was the skipper of that lie CBS tried to pass off as news. He should have been publicly and unceremoniously axed. They should have run a film of Rather leaving Black Rock with a box of his belongings on the six o’clock news about two days after the “story” ran. Rather’s culpability lies in his description of himself. He says he’s a reporter. Reporters don’t run BS obviously fake – fake to the point of being exposed with-in 30 min of airing – documents to destroy a sitting president. Now if Big Dan claimed, rightly, that he was nothing more than a news reader, well then that’s a different story.

As for CBS, they, like all major news agencies, have such a left bent that it’s ridiculous. And they don’t even know it. Bernie Goldberg’s theory is that the major media is so inundated with left thinking people that it never occurs to them that there might be another side to a story. They aren’t bias because they want to be but rather (no pun) because there is no one within the organization to say, “Wait a minute, who the hell is Bill Burkett?” or “Mary you’ve been working on this for five years. If there was anything to it, shouldn’t it have surfaced long ago?” or “Just because you want it to be true doesn’t mean that it is.” Baring some tidal shift in thinking, they are doomed. For me they’ve been dead since August 1991.