sorry, but you haven't been paying attention to the REAL damage that man did as the most influential faux journalist on TV
you clearly don't agree, but there's this things about reality having a liberal bias. have you read any of this, for starters? there are myriad others.
here:
http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/6/22/15442/0857Matthews, of course, is describing a private discussion. There's no proof that this discussion occurred . . . But did Russert really get played, as embellishments led us to war in Iraq? You don't have to rely on Matthews. Who can forget the embarrassing exchange Russert had with Bill Moyers, just last year? Had Russert been duped by the war machine? Fairly plainly, Moyers was asking--and as he answered, Russert made one of the most embarrassing statements a big journalist ever has made:
MOYERS (4/25/07): Critics point to September 8, 2002 and to your show in particular, as the classic case of how the press and the government became inseparable. Someone in the Administration plants a dramatic story in the New York Times . And then the Vice President comes on your show and points to the New York Times. It's a circular, self-confirming leak.
RUSSERT: I don't know how Judith Miller and Michael Gordon reported that story, who their sources were. It was a front-page story of the New York Times. When Secretary Rice and Vice President Cheney and others came up that Sunday morning on all the Sunday shows, they did exactly that. My concern was, is that there were concerns expressed by other government officials. And to this day, I wish my phone had rung, or I had access to them.
MOYERS (voice-over): Bob Simon didn't wait for the phone to ring. Has any journalist on this level ever embarrassed himself so badly? Russert complained that no one called him with the actual skinny. As he continued, Moyers compared Russert's passive conduct to the work of CBS's Bob Simon, who somehow managed to air a report casting doubt on the nuclear claims. Simon hadn't been sitting around hoping the phone would ring:
MOYERS (continuing directly): You said a moment ago when we started talking to people who knew about aluminum tubes. What people--who were you talking to?
SIMON: We were talking to people--to scientists--to scientists and to researchers, and to people who had been investigating Iraq from the start.
MOYERS: Would these people have been available to any reporter who called or were they exclusive sources for 60 Minutes?
SIMON: No, I think that many of them would have been available to any reporter who called.
MOYERS: And you just picked up the phone?
SIMON: Just picked up the phone.
MOYERS: Talked to them?
SIMON: Talked to them and then went down with the cameras.Moyer's voice-over concludes:
Few journalists followed suit. And throughout the fall of 2002 high officials were repeating apocalyptic warnings with virtually no demand from the establishment press for evidence.yep.....journalism at its finest. he was probably afraid that the exertion of picking up a phone might give him an infarc or something
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