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Politics, News & Issues > People in the News Is Dan Rather right to accuse Katie Couric of dumbing down and tarting up the news?

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Dan Rather may have been rude to blast Katie Couric, and may have been wrong to accuse her alone, but sadly he has got the right idea. Simply put, the modern TV news is not as intelligent, weighty, respectable, or important as it used to be, and the main reason is that the news has gone down-market faster than an armadillo on concrete (to quote Rather himself). Think back to the old days of television news, or see them re-enacted in the film "Good Night, and Good Luck." In past years, television news has had a gravity, an authority, that it doesn't have anymore. The anchors were heroes, fi...

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