All our mainstream journalists acted like cowards in all the preceeding months, just reading the party line, never commenting personally......making sure their contracts with the large media moguls were intact.
I remember reading where a journalist screamed out why the major network newscasters like Tom Brokaw or Dan Rather weren't speaking out about some of the abuses of the Bush administration.
Well, Dan Rather was live on an interview with Matt Drudge radio last night, and this is what he said.

Listen up, here folks!

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"There has never been an American war small or large in which access has been so limited as this one."

"For Godsakes - and for the sake of the war effort - Lets not turn the war into entertainment! It's an obscene comparison but then there was a time in South Africa where people would put flamming tires around people's necks if they dissented and in some ways the fear is that you will be necklaced here, You will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck. Now, it is that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions and to continue to bore in on the tough questions so often."

"What you have is a miniature version of what you have in totalitarian States. If they produce films about how great the great leader is and how he is getting greater in every way, every day..."

"The Pentagon's stated policy is maximum access and maximum information consistent with national security."

"But what is going on to a very large extent I am sorry to say is a belief that the public doesn't need to know, Limiting access limiting information to cover the backsides of those in charge of the war, Is extremely dangerous and can not and should not be accepted."

"And I am sorry to say that up to and including the moment of this interview that overwhelmingly it has been accepted by the American people."

"And that the current administration rebels in that they relish that and they take refuge in that."

"The belief runs so strong in both the political and the military leadership that in the current war effort those who control the images will control public opinion."

"They realize what an entertainment-oriented society ours has become."

"I hope this doesn't go any farther...it has gone too far already. I am appalled by it. I do think it is an outrage. This is a personal opinion."