By Charles Lewis, Politico Magazine
(Charles Lewis a travaillé pour 60 Minutes avant de fonder le Center for Public Integrity.)

Dan Rather [Misc.]

The big networks say they care about uncovering the truth. That’s not what I saw. (…)

In fact, the most trusted man in America around this time, CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite, had told Time magazine something in 1966 that still rang true more than a decade later: that “the networks, including my own, do a first-rate job of disseminating the news, but all of them have third-rate news-gathering organizations. We are still basically dependent on the wire services. We have barely dipped our toe into investigative reporting.”