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service or should I say non-service before the 2004 election. Dan Rather left CBS. Mary Mapes was fired. Three others on the team also left CBS. The same team had pissed off the Bush administration with the Abu Ghraib torture story and won a Pulitzer for that.

So Republican administrations are still flexing their muscles against journalism. News corporations bend to the will of government because they have to have government approval to make their business mergers. In the movie, Rather says 60 Minutes was the first time a news show made money for the corporation. News was supposed to be a truth telling service to the people not a money making deal. The scandal over Bush's Air National Guard non-service became a controversy over documents instead of the truth that Baby Bush didn't fulfill his military obligations. Privileged Bush escaped going to Vietnam. John Kerry was denigrated for his service in that war.

It seems the bad guys win and the American people lose. This happens over and over. And yet we have been told the truth and we have been told that the truth is a lie and we don't know what to believe. This is what Republican government does.