I'd rather not be Rather

I manage a news website Mpelembe Network. I have come to learn that no one has a monopoly on news. We all want to get the latest freshiest and relevant dose of gossip.

The Economist.com | Lexingtonhas a brilliant article reminding the old guard to step aside before they are tossed on the scrap heap or Rather the following puts it more politely;

"Given America's fractious politics, it is easy to look at Mr Rather's retirement merely in terms of a left v right scorecard. But, more fundamentally, it is about choice.
Mr Rather's announcement of his (partial) retirement comes just a few days before Tom Brokaw resigns from his job anchoring NBC's evening news. That leaves ABC's Peter Jennings as the only survivor of the long-established triumvirate. But nobody imagines that the arrival of new blood at CBS and NBC will revive the fortunes of the network news. Most Americans now get their news from an ever-proliferating range of sources: not just Fox or CNN, but also foreign newspapers and even the innumerable original documents that are now available at the touch of a button. And fewer people regard any single news source�be it CBS News or the New York Times�as the embodiment of truth. "