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Even describing MSNBC’s coverage of Walter Cronkite's death, you managed to be a partisan when you said that Dan Rather was “the same, though battered by an unfair right-wing scandal that ended his CBS career.” It was not a “right-wing scandal.”
“CBS News anchor Dan Rather apologized yesterday for a "mistake in judgment" in relying on apparently bogus documents for a "60 Minutes" report charging that President Bush received favorable treatment in the National Guard, ending a nearly two-week-long defense of the network's journalistic conduct that media analysts say has badly hurt its credibility.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35531-2004Sep20.html
You wrote:
“ I'd love to surface someone with a national news conscience and authority that could focus us on what matters. I'm not sure we completely had that back in Cronkite's day, but I am utterly certain we don't have it right now. What would it take to have the 2009 version of it?”
I think there is no hope for “the 2009 version” of Cronkite. It might be someone from a new generation of journalists who would not be a narrow-minded “liberal” or “conservative,” but an honest and intelligent journalist whom the whole nation would trust and listen to.
