Rather didn’t apologize, because it was never proven, one way or the other that the National Guard story was phony.

I did view a video of Bush’s Alabama Wing Commander.

He stated quite clearly that Bush NEVER REPORTED for duty. He never showed up. He showed up never.

That he could not be mistaken. That he was “surprised” when Bush stated he had served in Alabama NG. The reporter interviewing him asked if maybe Bush was “somewhere in a building that he didn’t know about.” Reply: “Not possible.”

That is Desertion . Not AWOL. He was gone longer than the time period set for labeling it AWOL. He was a WARTIME deserter.

Now, supply your evidence that Rather reported a phony story, please.

I have to disagree with you. I do not think declining revenue is a bad thing for print media. Should they defy logic, and be rewarded by customers for inferior, in fact, bassackwards reporting?

Because that is how the market place works: offer a good product, get customers. Offer shit, people smell the stench, and take their business elsewhere. I only read newspapers when I am offered one on a plane, or waiting in a lobby. I wouldn’t give the Times a plug nickel to read their garbage.

YOU dear, are the new media. Like Jack Nicholson said in the film The Departed: “Act accordingly.”

I know you will. That’s why we are here.

Revenue and readership are down because people no longer want to read what they write. Part of that problem is people like Rather who killed their credibility and the credibility of the profession.

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Just another white assed cracker without the brains god offered a peanut.

But more importantly he is the epitome of the banality of evil, men with no qualification, or expertise whose only qualification for anything is the change in their pockets.

They may have pedigreed educations, but when it comes to wisdom they are 0 for 3, and that says everything about the drift journalism today.

People read the newspaper as if reading a code, to see how the political winds might be shifting by analyzing the subtext.

We are getting closer to this situation here than I could have foreseen in my wildest imagination. I used to take for granted that we had a free press.

Of everything that has happened since the Clinton impeachment, which is when the collapse of this democracy began to become apparent to me, the lack of credibility of the national, establishment press has been the most shocking.

We’re not yet at the point where they’ve lost all credibility–as Pravda had in the old USSR. But only because in the USSR the vast majority of the people really cared, they wanted to know what was happening in their country and the world.