Dan Rather fought the truth and won, and the media never recovered
NY Post
Why did Dan Rather leave CBS?
After all, seems like the world’s come around to his views now.
Witness a true tongue-bath of an interview at his old home network this weekend, PR for a documentary about the man’s life — and proof positive that he fought against truth in journalism and the truth lost.
Yes, Rather was forced out at CBS for his disastrous reporting on George W. Bush’s National Guard service, in which he relied on fabricated documents to allege that Dubya got special treatment and that his superiors had been ordered to lie about his record.
As all the follow-up reporting showed, it was utter nonsense.
But what, in the end, did that matter?
“The right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances,” is guaranteed right at the top of the First Amendment, but the folks in charge of The Washington Post see such action as profoundly sinister if the “wrong” people do it, or perhaps the paper’s problem is with association and communication for the wrong causes.