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Too Good to be True, but It Is

        Dan Rather wants a presidential commission to meet, to consider how to "save" the news business, or the "truly free and independent press", as he called it.  We're all the poorer because of the lack of a "watchdog on power", we suffer from the diminuation of investigative journalism, and the decline in war correspondents.

        Somehow unmentioned in the speech, at least as the Aspen Daily News reported it, is the fact that the press currently regards itself as a hostile neutral when reporting on U.S. wars, ready to spread enemy propoganda.  Nor did he mention the way "investigative journalism" has become advocacy journalism, with the "watchdog" of the press surpressing inconvenient facts.  And of course, the sheer dishonesty of so many news reports wasn't brought up.

        Hey Dan, here's an idea: in order to strengthen the news media, it should start admitting its ignorance of almost everything important, and stop its frequent lying.

        But I won't hold my breath on that one.

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        And the angel said unto them, "Be not afraid!  For, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.  For unto you is inaugurated this day in the city of George a Saviour, which is B. Hussein Obama the President."  And since then, everything has been perfect.   (The Gospel According to CNN, Chapter 2, verses 8-11.) rant end

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