This quote from Dan Rather:
"Its unpatriotic not to stand up, look them in the eye, and ask the questions they don't want to hear." from an interview conducted by the
BBC in May, 2002.
In England, that interview was considered big news -- that an anchor of Rather's prominence would confess to not asking tough questions. Almost every newspaper in London put the story on its front page.
In the U.S. the interview was mostly not covered at all, and certainly not on Rather's own network.
It took Richard Clarke to begin the examination.