Rather: Journalism Has 'Lost Its Guts'

CNET News | Mar. 13, 2007 (News Report)

To longtime CBS broadcaster Dan Rather, American journalism in recent years "has in some ways lost its guts."

During his hour-long keynote address at South by Southwest Interactive, Rather opined at length on the state of his profession, in which too many journalists have become lapdogs to power, rather than watchdogs.

"I do not exclude myself from this criticism... By and large, so many journalists-there are notable exceptions-have ... Full Story »

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by Tom Cox - Oct. 1, 2008

As a story based on a one-hour speech this is awful. The prose is disjointed and poorly edited, containing the same money quote in two places for no clear reason. (If one was was intended to be a pull-quote, it lacked formatting to indicate it, and we can reasonably fault the publication for confusing the reader.) I saw no journalistic value- add of context, history, background, or additional sources.