Dan Rather on Realtime.

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I'm still calling on PBS for news, Bill Moyer appears to possess the integrity of a newsman in the old mold. The other networks generally are commercial and getting more so every day. 60 minutes excluded, although they could be a bit more hardhitting like they used to be.

The internet news sources are pretty much the same as the networks, if you scratch a little it is a handful of companys providing most of the content we read as news.

The blogosphere is simply a hugely expanded letters to the editor section with a free for all of self appointed experts voicing their opinions as facts with very little attribution or effort at fact checking.

The most typical example of this prostitution of the News desks of some fine old companys was handed to the Fox News Network in a court recently. It appears that the decision means that any news network can lie it's ass off with impunity.

Sad days have come when there is no veracity and integrity in the use of something that is a resource belonging to the people. The FCC has been gutted and stripped of any meaningful oversight over it.

Opinion based news can only masquerade as news. Used to be that you called a shovel a shovel and a spade a spade but now it's beyond even just selling soap. It has crept into the business of molding their clients far into the future.

Madison Ave ain't nothing new! (even I'm not that naive) but there were some standards that now aren't even relevent. Thanks to Fox News Corp maybe it's time for the slime purveyors to just drop the word News from their names.