The Education of Dan Rather by PEGGY NOONAN

[gaijinda]

One of the best things I have read in a long time:

"He wanted to be a star. He was willing to learn and willing to pay his dues. He covered hurricanes and demonstrations, and when they got him to New York they let him know, as only an establishment can, what was the right way to think, the intelligent enlightened way, the Eastern way, the Ivy League way, the Murrow School of Social Justice way. They let him know his simple Texan American assumptions were not so much wrong as not fully thought through, not fully nuanced, not fully appreciative of the multilayered nature of international political realities. He swallowed it whole."

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/

[cegerer]

A very well-written article.