We're Rather Missing the Point, Aren't We?

Notice how the news of Armstrong Williams appeared on Friday and by Monday, it was replaced by the CBS so-called Document Gate scandal? Through 12 hours of discussion about Rather and CBS yesterday, I heard NO ONE in the mainstream media utter the question of Williams and the WH buying the press.

Lost in all of this talk about CBS are little pieces of information such as the secretary of Bush's superior confirming that the man considered Bush a real screw-up; she just didn't happen to think she typed the document in question. Nobody has EVER discredited what those documents said. In fact, there's no proof positive those documents were faked. But the corporate press is determined to follow the talking points set forth by the Bushies, let everything else - including facts - be damned.

I also noticed one scary thing: yesterday they were raising as problematic the issue of Rather's history of asking Richard Nixon tough questions while never happening to mention that Nixon was forced to resign for his massive lying and deceit. I guess we're revising Nixon now, too, along with Ann Coulter telling us Joe McCarthy is the greatest American patriot who has ever lived.

When I studied journalism in the late 70s and early 80s, we were supposed to ask tough questions and find the answers. The folks who did not were called public relations people.