Opti, the Rather thing is mob mentality - they don't care who actually made it, the mob just wants blood and Rather was at the front of the line. There is little logic, just one of those things.
The media in the US is balanced. What is more concerning is the "news cycle" control - which falls almost entirely to the whitehouse. They do their damndest to either get their stories to be number 1, or to get their stories to offset negative stories. Too much of the local media now is dependant on news pieces prepared "elsewhere", sometimes that includes news created by, produced by, and reported by government employees.
Liberal or conservative isn't the issue - the issue is that someone further up the ladder is pulling the string and playing the media to get you the news they WANT you to know.
Alex
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