Instapundit quotes David Halberstam on RatherGate:
"What they did was very stupid," Halberstam said. "But they have been heading in that direction for a long time. I've always been critical of this whole business of star journalism, where you have a big anchor coming on air and acting as a prosecutor with someone else's reporting. In many instances over the years on that program the reports have been lightly or poorly sourced and the reporting suffers as a result. Dan Rather right now is the principal anchor of the Evening News, but he is also the program's main reporter. Then he's the anchor of 48 Hours. On top of that he's the star of 60 Minutes II. That's just too much for one person and it leads to the kind of sloppiness in their reporting that just happened."
I wish Prof. Reynolds had taken this quote to task. Nowhere in it does Halberstam for a moment consider that bias toward President Bush and the republicans might have played a role in CBS's rush to judgment. Halberstam, a gifted man no doubt, is a member of the Eastern establishment which is awash
in groupthink, convinced that the fact that they all think alike is the result of the natural order of things, and that the rest of us simply don't understand the nuances the world presents.
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