Why did Rather do it?
Go to any one of your local institutions of higher learning and sit in on a class on journalistic integrity and you'll soon find out.
It's called "activist journalism", and it's the poison that has infiltrated all of the mainstream media since the 60's (and, consequently, made a website like this one absolutely necessary for anyone who wants to get their news undiluted by socialism and anti-Americanism). In fact, Rather (not) had a large hand in this himself 35-40 years ago.
Actually, it goes back to the 1950's, documented by muckraking author Vance Packard in The Opinionmakers in the 1960's. The Columbia School of Journalism surveys their students annually, and one of the questions asked is why they entered journalism. The political motive became evident in the 1950's, and it had increased to a majority in the 1960's. The proportion has increased to more than 90% since he wrote his book (as shown in periodical articles addressing the same subject that have been published since then), and now the vast majority of working journalists are politically motivated and overwhelmingly liberal, thus poisoning the well of public opinion against traditional American values. It's amazing we aren't France already, so strong is the tilt toward moral anomie, internationalism and socialism in media.
Go to any one of your local institutions of higher learning and sit in on a class on journalistic integrity and you'll soon find out.
It's called "activist journalism", and it's the poison that has infiltrated all of the mainstream media since the 60's (and, consequently, made a website like this one absolutely necessary for anyone who wants to get their news undiluted by socialism and anti-Americanism). In fact, Rather (not) had a large hand in this himself 35-40 years ago.
Thanks for bringing that up. With all of the talk about "bias," I never hear the term "activist journalism," even though it is the key to the bias.