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I said that the visit had been set up as a photo-op, and that neither the museum nor the dead should ever be used to advance political or diplomatic ends. Lerman changed his mind, supported my objections and disinvited Arafat. But a chorus broke out, a chorus of wishful thinking that the Palestinian would become a changed man after visiting the museum. Lerman received political pressure to restore the invitation. He did. He and his colleagues on the museum's board of trustees, all of them presidential appointees, convinced themselves that the Palestinian leader would be educated and transformed. In the end, the Arafat visit image, is playing on Iranian TV. never took place. On the day This is deeply illogical: There he was to come, he canceled. was no Holocaust, but there The Monica Lewinsky scandal was an Iranian who saved Jews had just broken and the media from it. But never mind logic. had decamped to the White Still, as in the Arafat affair, House to cover it. There would some here thought that perbe no photo-op. And therefore haps Ahmadinejad should be no political advantage to the given a chance. Memorials can visit. change men's souls. And if abusLast week's Ahmadinejad ing memory can achieve somefiasco is eerily similar to that thing good, then it's a worthy earlier one. True, in this instance abuse. it was Ahmadinejad, not the I hope that the future will Americans, who wanted to mis- spare us more such fiascos. But use Ground Zero for political given the widespread readiness purposes. He has been getting to misuse memory and memoriheat in his own country, suffer- als, and the wishful thinking that ing economic and diplomatic they have the power to transconsequences as a result of his form evil into good, I doubt that Holocaust denial, his genoudal it will. threats against Israel and his nuclear saber-rattling. A visit U> Walter Reich, a former director Ground Zero could have sotlof the U.S. Holocaust Memorial ened his image. Museum, is a professor of In fact, a miniseries featurinternational affairs at Ceorge ing an Iranian diplomat who Washington University and a saved Jews in France during the senior scholar at the Woodrow Holocaust, presumably aimed Wilson Center. at repairing Ahmadinejad's [Mcontinued from page 17 C U There 9/29 11AM-2PM 435-750-1414 \Jcontinued from page 17 Rather: His ego is today's news This Is • • • • Monday, Sept. 24, 2007 Memorial: A flashback to the past USU Student Golf Special! From now until the snowfalls Views&OpinJOn nalistic ethics. Moreover, if he aired something that was concocted by CBS's corporate staff rather than produced by the news division's journalists, he cooperated in an unforgivable surrender of the standards that separate the business and news sides in American media organizations. The most reckless thing about Rather's pathetic and contradictory exercise in self-justification is his appropriation of genuinely serious issues as props for this charade. He told CNN's King, for example, that he brought the law suit for "two core reasons. In no particular order - although I do think the most important reason is somebody sometime has got to take a stand and say democracy cannot survive, much less thrive, with the level of big corporate and big government interference and intimidation in news." That may be, but Rather's quarrel with CBS reflects another melancholy reality. The decades r CONVERGYS Outthinking Outdoing of corporate ownership of major American news media, with their relentless cost-cutting, layoffs and elevation of financial performance over journalistic excellence, have frayed the bonds of reciprocal loyalty that once bound media proprietors and journalists together, particularly at elite organizations, as CBS once was. ; It's impossible, for example, to imagine either Edward R. Murrow or Walter Cronkite suing CBS, their regard for the institution, their loyalty to its principles simply was too strong - stronger, in fact, than either of their considerable opinions of themselves. It's a somber thing to see the ruined house that Murrow built now reduced to a shabby backdrop for the last act in the ego theater of Dan Rather: Tim Rutten writes about the media for the Los Angeles Times. Let your voice be heard! Participate in our online forums at: www.utahstatesman.com/messageboard Saturday O9.22 Wednesday O9.2G Monday Thursday riday 09.28"! Tuesday O9.25 Saturday O9.29 |