There Goes a Real Reporter?

Most of tonight's one hour career retrospective on Dan Rather's days at CBS was innocuous enough. However, I found a remark at the end to be truly startling. It put this entire "Goodbye Dan Fest" in perspective for me.

How one responds to Dan Rather reveals how one responds to what the mainstream media news outlets offer as journalism. Do they have a liberal bias or not? Some insist there is no bias, just right-wing paranoia. I disagree. Rather is not a journalist. He is a propagandist.

This is Rather pondering his future and his legacy:

"I can spend my time reporting, which is my first love," he says. "I wanted, when I walk down the street, for people to say, 'There goes a real reporter.'"
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Real reporter? I don't think so, Dan. I'm one person saying, "There goes someone in such utter denial that it's actually frightening."

Considering Dan to be a reporter with journalistic integrity is unrealistic. To use Dan's words, “I think you're more likely to see the Pope ride through this room on a giraffe” (February 18, 1997).