Rather likely

The decline of the major media should give us hope that other monopolies might fall, too | Joel Belz

It was bad enough that Dan Rather and his CBS News crew lied through their teeth about the evidence they had to back up their claims on the Sept. 8 60 Minutes II program. Much, much worse was the spirit of Mr. Rather's self-defense when he grudgingly began to come a little bit clean about the news organization's bold efforts to deceive.

"Our evidence may have been flawed," admitted Mr. Rather (in effect) as his account began to unravel, "but we stand by our story."

There you have it in all its glorious ignominy—the postmodernist disconnect between a hypothesis someone might hold and the hard data available to back up that hypothesis.

It doesn't matter anymore, says Mr. Rather, if our evidence is fabricated. Just believe us.