Reply #64: My thoughts on Jennings tonight... [View All]

[southlandshari]

As someone who majored in journalism twenty years ago because I thought it was one of the last refuges of truth tellers, I admit I have been bitterly disappointed by the direction of the MSM in the last few years in particular. There isn't a mainstream newsperson on any of the major networks or cable news channels that hasn't shown some signs of caving to the corporate powers that be at one time or another, even those icons I have long respected, like Jennings and Rather.

My disappointment and anger at the MSM aside, I am glad this thread was started as a place for human expressions of concern and condolence for someone who did more right than wrong over his decades of reporting around the world. My thoughts and prayers are with Jennings and his loved ones tonight.

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