He's finally leaving as anchor but he'll stay on with 60 Minutes II. Of course, he claims it has nothing to do with the fiasco that was Memo-Gate. Sure. He and Cronkite can have fun together in retirement and Jennings should be going soon too.
This brings up the larger issue of accounatability in general. We've seen time and time again in the past four years examples of so-called news coorespondants being caught in open lies. They rarely face consequences. The entire CEO-gate series of events showed us how corrupt the business world is. But it isn't only the media and business. This administration has modeled the exact same style of leadership. Now the Republicans in the House are taking measures to undermine their own original rules and let Delay stay in power despite his situation. It's virtually impossible in either the media or the political realm to actually be fired these days (unless you're a medicore governor that people just don't like.) If our "leaders" and our media (who claim to be the defenders of truth) can't even be honest then what hope is there for our nation's future? Will we just continue to become a nation that takes less and less responsiblity for our mistakes? There's not much of a future in that, and it can't bode well for our country.
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