He’s really losing it. Dan Rather, for the longest time, claimed that the news dept at CBS was autonomous, left to it’s own devices.
Now he’s claiming interference...I’m telling you, he’s suffering from sort of mental breakdown.
He's probably talking about how CNN covered up Saddam's atrocities so they could stay on his good side.
Yup Dan, you’re right. The Cuban Gov’t, the N. Korean Gov’t, the Chinese Gov’t, and the Venezuelan Gov’t, the Iranian Gov’t and the Syrian Gov’t. Let’s not forget members of the DNC, they’re in the Gov’t too.
Dan Rather, later - “Government is in bed with news like a adulterer sleeping with his best friend’s wife.”
I’m more worried about newsrooms unethically influencing government by colluding with the DNC on many news stories.
What’s the frequency, Daniel?
There was undue influence by government over newsrooms—during the clinton era.
Clinton not only faxed them talking points every day, he pressured management to fire at least 5 reporters for writing negative stories about them.
Has anyone seen any signs of like behavior under Bush? I don’t think so.
He’s right about governments influencing the MSM. But it’s not ours. It’s his friends at Al Jazeera, and other America hating governments that are doing it. His colleagues depict us as the villians on a daily basis.
Paranoia and self pity..the favorite refuges of frustrated “progressives”.
Still trying to cover for his own lies and misdeeds...and somehow profit from it in the mean time. What an arrogant, sniveling, lieing, cheat and scoundrel he is.
What is Democratic about the Big News media producing lies and half truths to purposely swing elections? Dan Rather got caught in his lie, he didn’t care if the story was verifiable only that it would hurt President Bush. Yet not one story about the traitorous activities of Kerry who met with the enemy and slandered his fellow soldiers from this . They were letting him run as a War Hero! It is like letting Stalin run as a humanitarian and they still don’t understand why that anti-war reject didn’t win!
If we’d had a real machine going against him he’d have been taken down to the level of a McGovern who failed to win the Presidency with only 38% to Nixon’s 60% but alas Republicans still have a desire to play nice with those who do not deserve it. It was left up to independent organizations like the Swift boats to keep that atrocity out of the White House. If it hadn’t been for us here at Freerepublic and others independently responding and denying Rather and his cronies their jollies with Bush we would’ve probably had a Kerry Presidency.
This is not new for Rather. I remember him spouting this
paranoid self defensive trash in a televised interview a couple of years ago.
And what evidence do you have Gunga Dan, of this?
Actually, the only regret I have about this whole episode, is that it would have been fun to watch (repeats) of Dan coming totally unglued on the air on one of his news casts.
And in other news: Dan Rather has been diagnosed with Altheimer’s.
Fake but accurate, Dan?
I was in trade publishing for more than 10 years, which is alleged by "real journalists" of the MSM (especially by blowhards like Dan Rather) to be the black sheep of the publishing family, mostly due to the alleged influence of advertisers.
In truth, most of the folks I worked with had some kind of "real" news background, and many had been journo majors and even graduate students from well-known journo schools. To a man, they were deeply and occasionally emotionally opposed to even a hint of advertiser influence. It just didn't happen. When it was even remotely suspected, there would be an uproar of protest by the entire staff. Even a a whiff of influence would send telephone books, Rolodexes, and stacks of press releases flying across the bullpen in anger.
So I am going to assert (based on the above and on knowing lots of "real" jounos as well) that Rather is lying though his teeth. While we all agree that journos do in fact carve their reporting and stories in accordance with their personal and collective ideological stances, Rather's charge is the most profoundly unimaginable insult to his own profession and certainly to his former CBS colleagues.
IMO this reflects VERY badly on Rather and his eagerness to make slanderous wholesale charges against those he once worked with. There is no doubt that he is this week the most despised and disrespected person on earth within the network news profession.
We've all known that the Democrats in government have a huge influence on the MSM news and how it's presented, but we always thought both were happily working for a common socialist/communist goal.
Hey Dan Rather.........we don’t care! Just go away.