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Dan Rather blows up Self, Kerry

Dan and John go boom Things are not going well for dear John Kerry and now the Fake Memo story is making his odds even longer. Unless you think some Republican planted fake memos at CBS, to make the Dems look bad. And if you think that, you need to refresh yourself with Occam's Razor. Am I the only one who thinks it is very odd that no major Canadian news outlet is reporting on this story? Nothing on The National Post this morning and nothing on Canoe News as of 4.20pm Pacific. Maybe they really are all on Kerry's side. Memo to major Canadian media: You suck. Imagine the surprise in Canada the day after the Election, and Bush wins by a decent margin (not a landslide). Canadians wake up and ask, "How did that happen? We didn't see it coming." Dan Rather is being such zero about the whole thing too. As Jonah Goldberg at National Review points out,
... it seems impossible that [Rather] can prove they [the Killian memos] are real. Indeed, Rather has already largely conceded all this. His defenses are all about how you can't prove the documents are false, as if the burden of proof for a journalistic icon is for other people to prove what he says is wrong rather than for him to prove it is right.
Rather must think he works in an Ottawa sinecure of some sort. I also agree with Goldberg when he says:
we are officially at the Goodbye To All That moment of old media.
But only a handful of people know it yet. The major media are wary but concede nothing. The man on the street doesn't know what a blog is. This will take some time to play out, but we just might have the makings of a Linux style news reporting here. And that isn't all positive. Linux is reportedly a really solid operating system, but most people can't use it. Like me, for example. So what will happen when people who can't use logical precepts like Occam's Razor, start to attempt to get their news from Blogs? Or at the very least, to vet the news through blogs? My guess is that we'll see a lot more of groups like Moveon.org trying to sell paranoia and despair. And they'll have some takers, I have no doubt.

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