I was a child and never heard of that Dan Rather documentary, nor in the years since or the prodigious research for my books.
We’ve all loved to hate Dan Rather, but after reading this and the interview below, I now wonder if he wasn’t the last true television journalist [ahem; no argument that he was a lib and deserved what he got], taken out by having been baited with the Killian docs (an assertion I made nearly 20 years ago and prompted an exchange which got me my 2nd zot on FR).
In a brief trip down memory lane, I can’t think of a single tv news head who asked hard charging questions who didn’t also get taken out...save for Tucker (and look how successful he was at combatting the covid jackboots).
Now we’re in a new era of cancer epidemic, post-jabs, and everyone who asks hard questions - climate, jabs, uke-related, hunter, elections - gets taken out.
Trump was their prize.
Things which make you go ‘Hmmmmmmm’...
They tried repeatedly to take out Rush Limbaugh, but in the end he took himself out with billowing clouds of aromatic first-hand cigar smoke.
Honestly, I think Rush was smarter than Trump. Nothing against Donald Trump, he did a good job as far as it went, although he made some very bad hires, and didn't really understand what he was in for when he won the Presidency.
If you want a good laugh check out any PBS “science” programming.
Invariably they find a black woman to narrate and her title is “science spokesperson”.
She can’t say more than ten words in a row without repeating the “climate change” mantra.
You can’t make up this stuff!