Dan Rather is calling on the state (naturally) to prop up the old mainstream media and had this to say: "If we do nothing more than stand back and hope that innovation alone will solve this crisis,” he said, “then our best-trained journalists will lose their jobs." From your lips to God's ear, Dan. But innovation is indeed 'solving' this 'crisis' as the meteoric spread of blogs and other forms of new media are demonstrating….

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