Pieces of Flair

This is a good piece on the recent Rather scandal and the lameness of network news in general. Rather Irrelevant

Most of us regard network anchors as faintly pompous talking heads, people who read other people's prose off teleprompters. But the anchors, rather extraordinarily, still regard themselves as the conscience of the nation. They aren't mere 'journalists' who have to use authentic documents to prove their allegations but rather people whose fame and large paychecks and unchallenged power entitle them to some kind of automatic credibility, even if their documents are fake.

I for one can't wait for network news to go the way of the Dodo.