Dan Rather's Big "I"

Jonah Goldberg with a little bit of Gunga Dan retrospective, summed up nicely:

I have no objection to journalists having biases, much as I have no objection to two plus two equaling four. One may choose to accept the fact or not, but it is a fact nonetheless. Dan Rather, however, always insisted his reporting was bias-free, that he was calling the facts, and just the facts. His career as anchor ended in large part because he couldn’t accept that something he had reported wasn’t true and that he had rushed to report it because of an agenda that wasn’t stamped with an “I.” The irony is that that’s what his career was always about.

Journalists perpetrate a fraud on the American public every day when they fail to disclose biases, to cover stories from all viable angles, and when they choose to cover only those stories which advance their favored causes. In short, they defraud us whenever they claim they have no agenda but "The Truth".

Well, let's start with a little truth in advertising, and work our way up the cosmic chain from there, okay?