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Is the bravest thing Dan Rather has ever done to admit his own cowardice?
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Mon, 17 Jun 2002 08:58:36 GMT
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Is the bravest thing Dan Rather has ever done to admit his own cowardice?
(this may wrap, cut and paste the whole URL)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/audiovideo/programmes/newsnight/archive/newsid_2029000/2029634.stm
RATHER (Anchor, CBS Evening News -- on the subject of how much the current
climate of extraordinary patriotism is stopping journalists from asking the
tougher questions about the war on terrorism):
"It's an obscene comparison but there was a time in South Africa when people
would put flaming tyres around people's necks if they dissented. In some
ways, the fear is that you will be neck-laced here, you will have a flaming
tyre of lack of patriotism put around your neck. It's that fear that keeps
journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions and to continue
to bore-in on the tough questions so often. Again, I'm humbled to say I do
not except myself from this criticism."
-- Hop-Frog
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