Nomorelies
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 Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 1:23 am Post subject: Andrew Sullivan Rips Dan Rather |
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| Quote: | | CBS News has failed on all these counts. It did shoddy reporting and then self-interestedly dug in against an avalanche of evidence against it. Rather can blather all he wants about the political motivation of some in the blogosphere--but what matters is not bias but accuracy. His attitude, moreover, has bordered on the contemptuous; and the blogosphere has chewed him up and spat him out. He has acted as if journalism is a privilege rather than a process; as if his long career makes his critics illegitimate; as if his good motives can make up for bad material. The original mistake was not a firable offense. But the digging in surely is. It seems to me that when a news anchor presents false information and then tries to cover up and deny his errors, he has ceased to be a journalist. I'd like to say that Dan Rather needs to resign from his profession. But, judging from the last few days, he already has. |
Read the entire article at http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?pt=ojT4kAHMxYif0J12sUAH8B%3D%3D
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