Rather is reported to have said,
“A truly free and independent press is the red beating heart of democracy and freedom,” Rather said in an interview yesterday afternoon. “This is not something just for journalists to be concerned about, and the loss of jobs and the loss of newspapers, and the diminution of the American press’ traditional role of being the watchdog on power. This is something every citizen should be concerned about.”Dan hasn't been a potent force for much of anything since his fraudulent misuse of his position to attack G.W.Bush with phony documents. Rather has always been unmistakeably way left of reason. So he is not able to see that the problem with the MSM is him, and people like him. The MSM is no longer even opaque about their way left opinions that substitute for news. Every anchor gets to slaver about the White House with Obama; they go to the lavish parties thrown at taxpayer expense; they return the favors with soft-ball questions and burying real issues, not to mention publishing distortions that are blatantly obvious to the non-mesmerized.
The intellectual corruption and abandonment of their obligation to objectivity is the self-induced cancer that is killing the MSM. The free market still allows consumers to reject such rancidly foul products, and take their money and attention to other sources. If the government is to protect such enterprises, it will have to force consumers to pay. Giving tax $ to the MSM? Maybe, but more likely a distributed approach, including punitive attacks on alternate news sources, such as those provided by the internet, and an expansion of the new Obama News Distribution Network, allowing news only to favored outlets.
As with all of Obama's approaches, nothing is off the table. Corruption about to surface? Then fire the inspectors. Like so many aspects of the New World of Obama, it is definitely interesting to watch.
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