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To: Hildy
Rather stated that "fear has increased in every newsroom in America," and added that reporting on explosive issues can bring a torrent of e-mails and phone calls. That can lead to a situation, he said, in which journalists conclude that "when you run this story, you're asking for trouble with a capital 'T'. . . Why run it?"


Freeper Fear?
18 posted on 07/25/2004 6:36:50 PM PDT by mugs99 (Restore the Constitution)
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To: mugs99

No...fear that Rather, et.al., no longer have monopolistic control of the flow of information and they simply cannot handle not being the dictators of thought.


23 posted on 07/25/2004 6:43:51 PM PDT by twntaipan (demonRATs ARE the friends of our enemies, which makes demoRATs our... (finish the sentence).)
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