Reply #5: I'm still on Dan's side. I know a reporter who was put into a temporary [View All]

[NVMojo]

editorship of a paper owned by Liberty Publishing a few years back. He saw what was coming in the industry, kept telling everyone what was coming, saw the "corporitizing" of the media clear down to the small town papers in lucrative markets. He talked about the bastardization and prostitution of the news pages to advertising and the editorial content given over to the big corporations and the Republican Party in town. He went to a company conference of editors and delived a manifesto on the state of things, all the while, he slipped into a tunnel of alcoholism and depression. They fired him. It was a horrible thing to watch and then he fell, hard. This was a man who had covered events in Bosnia of such horror that one didn't want to imagine it.

I see him wandering the streets these days, he's been jobless for years. He reminds me of a John the Baptist, a voice crying out in the wilderness 10 years ago about what was coming with the media ...and he couldn't handle the truth of what he saw coming. Dan Rather is a victim of what this man predicted ...