The Canadian public generally accept this, because of these cliches. "The most trusted name in broadcasting. The news you can trust etc." They actually trumpet their own "virtue".
To things American. When one considers that it went down to about 500 odd votes in Florida in 2000. I dare say some people could still wake up in a sweat, even yet.
I hold this to be true. That Dan Rather deliberately tried to sabotage the presidential chances of George Walker Bush. In his mind, the solemn fact of the Iraq war, could possibly swing the vote in favour of Senator Kerry.
His was a deep thrust - a final quietus. . That it was well parried,was only just. Only he knows though. If he is a political dupe, then he will lose no sleep. As a man and an American, he should come clean. He should campaign for a more objective journalism. If such a thing could exist.
The word "sophistry" derives from the Greek for "wisdom." "Philosophy" does too - but philosophy means the love of wisdom - and sophistry is the claim of wisdom.If you are philosophical it only means that you are open to facts and logic; if you are a sophist you are wise in your own conceit - and not open to reason.
Only the person who admits that his own perspective has a name can escape the trap of sophistry and be philosophical. Journalists are sophists because they claim to be objective - and, there being no such thing as "unwise objectivity," their claim of objectivity is actually a claim of wisdom.
Blather's gender aside, his allegiance -- American or otherwise -- has never been anything but murky.
And as for his coming clean?
He needn't bother with all that, now.
I for one am settling for something more assuring, verifiable, from that one.
...his leaving.