This Week’s “Reliable Sources”

From CNN:

    HOWARD KURTZ, CNN ANCHOR: The media get juiced. Television goes haywire as O.J. is arrested, jailed and freed on bail over charges of armed robbery. Are journalists rooting for the conviction that never happened in the double murder case a dozen years ago and are they wallowing in yet another celebrity scandal?
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    DAN RATHER, FORMER NEWS ANCHOR: I want to say personally and directly I am sorry.

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    KURTZ: Rather’s revenge — the former CBS anchor sues his old network, charging that he was made a scapegoat in the botching of that story about George Bush and the National Guard. How could rather defend those disputed documents when he’s already apologized? And is it too late to seek vindication?

    Plus is television polluting our culture with the never-ending flood of sexual images? A conversation with Laura Ingraham.

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