For anyone that didn't see it, Dan Rather is a senior and well respected anchorman for CNN News who has broken rank and launched an amazing tirade against news reporting in the States. He has admitted his own culpability and made an apology for the lack of real information about US agression abroad. He complains that the media provides "militainment" about troops stationed in Afghanistan and elsewhere, and yet there is very little real information available. He describes the pressure to confom that journalists are under and basically tells the US people to wake up and see what is really going on.

Now if this were Pilger or Chomsky et al, we'd all nod knowingly and expect the news to be buried, but this was fucking Dan Rather!!! That's like Trevor McDonald or Michael Buerk standing up in the UK and saying "most of what I've been telling you is manipulative deceit and it's time you stopped believeing me and found out exactly what's really going on".

Did anyone else see this Newsnight report and has anyone heard about any follow-up/repercussions etc.? I'm kind of waiting to hear that Rather has been taken off air and comitted to a mental asylum or something? Is he still broadcasting?