Bill Moyers, van de Amerikaanse (staats)zender PBS, heeft onlangs Keith Olbermann geïnterviewd. Olbermann komt tegenwoordig het dichtst in de buurt van Walter Cronkite die zich ooit uitsprak tegen een verder verblijf van de Amerikaanse troepen in Vietnam. Nadien zei president Lyndon Johnson: If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost middle America.

Bill Moyers Journal . Transcripts | PBS: KEITH OLBERMANN: It means you have to do something like that. That part of the news is not just saying, “Well, this happened in the last 24 hours,” but here’s something that happened six weeks. There’s been a development in it. You’re just not reading about it, you’re not hearing about it because there’s so much else to worry about. The list, Bill, of things that we could attach the word “gate” to in the Bush administration is now 50 items long.