The fall of the American empire

What?!!

Steve Inskeep talks with Tom Bettag, senior executive producer of ABC's Nightline, whose final show will be broadcast Tuesday. The two discuss the changes to television journalism over the last two decades and the commercial pressures that confront reporters, editors, and producers.

It's the end of democracy -- maybe even civilization itself -- when commercialism takes over the way we think. The sad thing is that I don't think 99 percent of Americans will even notice.