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Peggy Noonan: CBS Didn’t Change; The Rest of the World Did. From her current article on Dan Rather, for whom she worked:
Two things to be said here. One is that CBS News hasn’t changed that much, and the other is that the media world in which it operates has changed completely. The whole context has changed. No one has to accept the enforced corporate liberalism of the networks anymore, as they did from 1950 through 1990. They have options, from cable to Fox to the Internet to hundreds and thousands of radio shows, newspapers, magazines. The old network hegemony is over. That’s why network news viewership is down, that’s why the evening news isn’t appointment TV anymore. America didn’t turn crazily right, Americans just finally got political options in how they’d get the news, and took advantage of them.
As I noted in a previous post, MSM will have to reform.
They’ll have to faithfully renew their grand tradition, their rightful, honorable mission, which is reporting the news, rather than reporting just the news that supports the Left, and suppressing the rest of it. They’ll have to do what the NY Times slogan says: not “All the News That Supports the Left,” but “All the News That’s Fit to Print.”
It’s very honorable to report all the news, precisely because it may not all support the candidate you yourself favor. There’s nobility in that.
