The current state of journalism in America is appalling. It is as though the quality of reportage is inversely proportional to the number of people that have access.
What we have right now is 90% of the media in the bag for the liberals and 10% in the bag for conservatives.
All the years Cronkite reported none of us could detect any affiliation or political bias. The guy revealed long into his retirement that he had been a flaming liberal the entire time. He managed to stick to facts, mostly, and delivered what amounted to unbiased reporting.
Dan Rather didn't seem quite up to that job. His blind hatred towards George Bush bubbled up all over his "reporting" to the point where he felt it was necessary to create false documents.
I remember when I used to rush home to watch Macneil Leherer (followed by Louis Rukeyser lol). I haven't seen any decent reporting since then.
What we have right now is 90% of the media in the bag for the liberals and 10% in the bag for conservatives.
All the years Cronkite reported none of us could detect any affiliation or political bias. The guy revealed long into his retirement that he had been a flaming liberal the entire time. He managed to stick to facts, mostly, and delivered what amounted to unbiased reporting.
Dan Rather didn't seem quite up to that job. His blind hatred towards George Bush bubbled up all over his "reporting" to the point where he felt it was necessary to create false documents.
I remember when I used to rush home to watch Macneil Leherer (followed by Louis Rukeyser lol). I haven't seen any decent reporting since then.