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Dear Mr. Rather,
I can remember. It is difficult, in lieu of what passes for journalistic integrity these days, but I can remember. Network news, I believe it was called. Ah yes, that’s it – network news.
You took the baton from the master, and for lo these many years have held it aloft. Now, amongst partisan hacks and thinly disguised republican campaign commercials riding roughshod over fair and balanced, you’ll need once again to show us old folks why you care, and show the young ones why it matters.
The truly free press, what is left of it, is under attack as never before. You hold damning evidence, yet no one asks our President the questions that previous news people would latch on to like rabid dogs. Instead, today, we have a press corps that willingly goes along with the “be good or no more cookies” mantra that the White House puts forth. I scream, you scream, but if I scream louder than I must be smarter. As Webster gets ready to redefine journalism as “something where facts matter little, but opinion matters most” I, and millions of others, look to you to tell him he’s wrong.
Mr. Rather, show us all again what real investigative news is truly about. Continue to ask the questions that need to be asked, and disregard the orchestrated smear campaign that started the minute you began to check the emperor’s clothes. The truth is there, disguised by those who do not wish to see. We know it’s there – hiding under superscripts and Times New Roman fonts and whatever else can be trotted out to kill the messenger. Turn the rocks over, peer in the cracks, and find it. It truly is that important.
I am honored to watch you, for I know now that despite what is happening to your brethren, you remember. Thank you.
Sincerely,
xxx xxxx
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