<br> How ironic that Ms. Blumner starts her proposition with the notion that Al Gore is right about anything and then uses his latest ramblings to castigate the citizenry for being “under informed” and “over titillated” yet she cannot even employ the words properly to make her point.  Amazingly she admonishes us to turn away from biased media, to use our intellect to investigate and reason and then, incredibly, she relies on a Gore quote from Dan Rather who was fired for failing to do just that!  I note Ms. Blumner’s inconsistency and hypocrisy with some disdain because I believe Mr. Gore’s underlying assertion that television news has “dumbed down and tarted up” its coverage; but unlike Mr. Gore and Ms. Blumner I do not believe that the American people are to blame for viewing or believing the subjective tripe that is television news.  No, I blame the likes of Dan Rather who was one of the first to disregard the public’s trust and cast aside his objectivity in favor of elaborating his personal views on Vietnam.  Sadly Ms. Blumner continues and broadens Mr. Rather’s defection by publishing her own biased views.