THE WAL-MARTIZATION OF TELEVISION NEWS
by Gerry McCarthy
There is a moment in television news history that will always be inscribed on my psyche. On the night of the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, CBS news anchorman Dan Rather made an announcement: “We’re taking Al Gore out of the Florida column, because of some bad data –or what we might better call suspect data.” He added that: “We’re not apologizing for this.”...