Another strong Trump endorsement. Very strong.
Dan means that more reporters are going to get nabbed for outright lying.....”just like I did”...
I was reminded of my college journalism professor, the late Hugh Cunningham, who would exhort his young charges in a thundering voice to "never let them scare you." It was his most important lesson. One of Edward R. Murrow's favorite words was "steady." That also bears repeating today.
This is a dirty, nasty election. And it is only going to get worse. The reporters in the trenches need no lecture from me. They are walking through daily minefields, bracing themselves against winds of discontent whose effects no one can predict.
I know what it is like to sit in those seats and feel the scorn and even wrath of politicians of all political persuasions. Attacking the press for unfair coverage has long been a bipartisan pursuit. Sometimes it works. I am happy to say that more often it doesn't. But Trump's brand of vituperation is particularly personal and vicious. It carries with it the drumbeats of threatening violence. It cannot be left unanswered.
This is not about politics or policy. It's about protecting our most cherished principles. The relationship between the press and the powerful they cover is by its very definition confrontational. That is how the Founding Fathers envisioned it, with noble clauses of protection enshrined in our Constitution.
Good journalism--the kind that matters--requires reporters who won't back up, back down, back away or turn around when faced with efforts to intimidate them. It also requires owners and other bosses with guts, who stand by and for their reporters when the heat is on.
I still believe the pen is mightier than the sword. And in these conflicted and troubled times, we should reward the bravery of the men and women not afraid to ask the hard questions of everyone in power. Our nation's future depends on it.
I was reminded of my college journalism professor, the late Hugh Cunningham, who would exhort his young charges in a thundering voice to "never let them scare you." It was his most important lesson. One of Edward R. Murrow's favorite words was "steady." That also bears repeating today.
This is a dirty, nasty election. And it is only going to get worse. The reporters in the trenches need no lecture from me. They are walking through daily minefields, bracing themselves against winds of discontent whose effects no one can predict.
I know what it is like to sit in those seats and feel the scorn and even wrath of politicians of all political persuasions. Attacking the press for unfair coverage has long been a bipartisan pursuit. Sometimes it works. I am happy to say that more often it doesn't. But Trump's brand of vituperation is particularly personal and vicious. It carries with it the drumbeats of threatening violence. It cannot be left unanswered.
This is not about politics or policy. It's about protecting our most cherished principles. The relationship between the press and the powerful they cover is by its very definition confrontational. That is how the Founding Fathers envisioned it, with noble clauses of protection enshrined in our Constitution.
Good journalism--the kind that matters--requires reporters who won't back up, back down, back away or turn around when faced with efforts to intimidate them. It also requires owners and other bosses with guts, who stand by and for their reporters when the heat is on.
I still believe the pen is mightier than the sword. And in these conflicted and troubled times, we should reward the bravery of the men and women not afraid to ask the hard questions of everyone in power. Our nation's future depends on it.
I was reminded of my college journalism professor, the late Hugh Cunningham, who would exhort his young charges in a thundering voice to "never let them scare you." It was his most important lesson. One of Edward R. Murrow's favorite words was "steady." That also bears repeating today.
This is a dirty, nasty election. And it is only going to get worse. The reporters in the trenches need no lecture from me. They are walking through daily minefields, bracing themselves against winds of discontent whose effects no one can predict.
I know what it is like to sit in those seats and feel the scorn and even wrath of politicians of all political persuasions. Attacking the press for unfair coverage has long been a bipartisan pursuit. Sometimes it works. I am happy to say that more often it doesn't. But Trump's brand of vituperation is particularly personal and vicious. It carries with it the drumbeats of threatening violence. It cannot be left unanswered.
This is not about politics or policy. It's about protecting our most cherished principles. The relationship between the press and the powerful they cover is by its very definition confrontational. That is how the Founding Fathers envisioned it, with noble clauses of protection enshrined in our Constitution.
Good journalism--the kind that matters--requires reporters who won't back up, back down, back away or turn around when faced with efforts to intimidate them. It also requires owners and other bosses with guts, who stand by and for their reporters when the heat is on.
I still believe the pen is mightier than the sword. And in these conflicted and troubled times, we should reward the bravery of the men and women not afraid to ask the hard questions of everyone in power. Our nation's future depends on it.
Yeah - the MSM can lie, make stuff up, exercise its political agenda while claiming no bias exists, and when one calls them on it, it is a really scary thing......
It is like this Dan: Most of my life I have watched a corrupt press pursue their corruption, and your outrage at their being called out doesn’t separate you from responsibility in doing the same thing.
No fan of W, but do you remember why you were fired?
That was the kind of corruption Trump was condemning, not the first amendment investigative responsibilities of the press.
Trump asked for honest reporting. We haven’t had that for four years.
Good.
Lyin’ Dan speaks up? Is he still alive?
The biggest fraud in the press gets a shudder, it must be because he see’s the jig is up
Isn’t he dead yet?
Tingles and shudders in various media body parts.
No fan of Trump, but the media has maxed out their credibility credit card. Dan Rather became old, but skipped the acquisition of wisdom along the way.
“I felt a shudder down my spine yesterday watching Donald Trump’s fusilade against the press.
If you did not understand that a majority of Americans have felt exactly that way for a number of years you are not much of a journalist are you?
Dan saw how much press the “tingle up my leg” comment got, so he has come up with his own version. He is just trying to stay visible. Poor Dan.
Bring it.
And keep in mind, Trump's attack on the press is not an attack on the 1st Amendment. It is a demonstration of it...an exercise of free speech against a pack of liars..
Good! The press free ride is over!
Dan Rather needs to look for and understand the truth in Trump's statements about the corrupt press, then apologize and repent. Trump is joined by tens of millions of Americans who understand that the press lying to the public is a basic betrayal of a vital survival function in a democratic republic, a true stab in the back.
Rather and his ilk have been stabbing the public in the back for many, many years. It is a genuine vast, left wing conspiracy.
Was the shudder faked?