Dan Rather calls for end of balanced news

Published March 5, 2024 9:00am ET



Former CBS anchor Dan Rather, dubbed by many the father of “fake news,” is demanding that reporters blast former President Donald Trump for fudging matters, though not Democrats.

“Enough with Both-sides-ism,” he wrote on X. “If Trump says the sky is green, the story isn’t that the sky is now green; the story is that the sky is still blue and Trump got it wrong,” he added.

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