The Frankfurter School

On Dan Rather’s excellent news show for HDNet, “Dan Rather Reports,” he tackles the kind of investigative reporting that used to regularly grace the network evening news, but would never pass muster at any of the networks now for fear of offending an advertiser.

In this piece, Rather makes a case that the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner faces safety concerns that the FAA is ill-equipped to monitor, and that the company itself may be minimizing at great risk to travelers.

A story like this one, critical of a major corporation, can only be done by a news organization that is not owned by one of the six major media conglomerates.