First, Dan Rather and CBS News got blasted by conservatives for ignoring the Chandra Levy story. Now USA Today reports that Rather apparently created another mini-controversy by (gasp!) suggesting on the air that the issues surrounding the use of embryonic stem cells was so complex, that viewers should pick up a newspaper or magazine to get more complete coverage of the controversy than television or radio could manage.
What’s next — will news anchors go so far as to urge people to read a book?(crappy World War II nostalgia by Tom Brokaw doesn’t count)