From NewsMax:
Former CBS anchor Dan Rather said there is a "climate of fear" in newsrooms that is worse than he’s ever seen in his four-decade career.
Rather declared that in the years since the then-White House correspondent tangled with President Nixon during the Watergate affair, politicians "of every persuasion" have gotten better at applying pressure on the corporations that own the broadcast networks.
Addressing the Fordham University School of Law on Monday, he called the current atmosphere a "new journalism order."
He said this pressure – along with "dumbed-down, tarted-up" news coverage, 24-hour cable news competition and the chase for ratings – "creates a bigger atmosphere of fear in newsrooms."
