Dan Rather on the Media

Here's a rather inspiring video of Dan Rather talking to a group of journalists at the DNC. He's dead on about a number of issues concerning accurate vs. corporate journalism today. (He's also, by the way, only the second person I've heard mention the fact that the military action in Georgia and the US threats to Russia are really about a gas pipeline; sadly, the first person I saw mention it was me.)

This is an especially interesting video when you take into consideration what just happened with Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews. Granted, Olbermann and Matthews aren't Dan Rather, but Dan Rather was forced out, too. America really needs to ask itself who has a vested interest in seeing reporters that people trust get silenced. Hell, if Jon Stewart didn't bring in money for Viacom, where would he be now?