Dan Rather on Realtime.

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I'm buying his book, "Rather Outspoken" and I'm cheap but this topic has been a concern of mine since the Nixon years when the Washington Post broke the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. That's when the RNC got the news corps in their sights and it would appear that they have been immensely sucessfull since.

The real elephant in the room is the fact that of the 50+ independent news corps with national distribution has shrunk to six only (four by Dan Rathers count) These were news corps who had a independent (more or less) news desk mostly unfettered by the corporate office dictates and stringent editorial control, which is the norm now.

Only six (or four) main news purveyors on the tube now compared to the bad old days of the independent liberal media? Maybe the FCC has been asleep at the switch? Their is a legal basis for the ether being a public resource, isn't there?

This is disturbing to think that the marketplace has grown maybe just a little bit since the '70s and our choices have shrunk to 10% of their heyday in the '60s.