Poor Morley Safer. I think that the 130 year-old co-anchor of CBS's too-tired news program "Sixty Minutes" is showing that he's just as tired as the show. Yesterday, in an acceptance speech at Quinnipiac University (no, I never heard of it either) he made an impassioned plea to save the newspapers across the country from financial ruin, and said that they were the only source of responsible journalism.
He took aim at today's bloggers and other internet sources as being "nuts with keyboards" and "full of ravings and manipulations".
Morley suffers from two things: Being part of the liberal mainstream media itself and living in a distant pass where newspapers faithfully and fairly reported the news, not colored it. Well Morley, wake up, the New York Times isn't $.15 anymore, and it's ever bit as full of ravings and manipulations as any popular website you can name.
Heck, I can even remember when his own show was unbiased and accurate. When even his fellow anchor Dan Rather would report real news instead of fabricating it. Yes, those were the days Morley, but it isn't that way anymore.
I guess he actually suffers from three things. I forgot dementia.
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