The University of Texas was ridiculed Wednesday after its communications school announced a series of journalism awards named after disgraced former "CBS Evening News" anchor Dan Rather. He has enjoyed a recent career renaissance thanks to his folksy, far-left Twitter persona and standing among media correspondents like CNN's Brian Stelter. Online critics lambasted the university for bestowing the honor on Rather, whose downfall is considered a seminal moment in the collapse of trust in traditional broadcast media. "This is certainly Orwellian," the Media Research Center's Dan Gainor tweeted. The Daily Wire's Ashe Schow wrote the news felt like something out of the satirical news publication the Babylon Bee.

Source: Fox News December 16, 2020 20:37 UTC