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Posted on 09/13/2004 6:15:39 PM PDT by NetResearchMan
This is Joe Hagan of the New York Observer with Back Channels on KCRW.
For years now, we’ve heard that one day soon, the television and the Web browser will form one appliance in everybody's living room -— Web TV, which will allow us to flip from, say, CBS to Yahoo with the click of a button. It hasn't happened yet, but it’s almost there, and despite its reputation as the place for speculation, gossip and out-right slander, the Web has already managed to gain a symbiotic relationship with TV news.
Consider the latest case. Last Wednesday, CBS's 60 Minutes aired a bombshell segment about President Bush's National Guard service, in which Dan Rather produced documents that indicated that Mr. Bush had pulled strings to avoid duty. Mr. Bush, whose father was then a Texas congressman, was "talking to somebody upstairs," a memo said. Those documents, CBS said, came from the personal files of Mr. Bush's former squadron commander, who died 20 years ago.
It seemed like the counterpunch to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, who had spent the month of August on cable news dishing out dubious claims against John Kerry's war record. But almost as soon as the CBS report aired, the right-wing Web went into overdrive, and within 24 hours, Mr. Rather's report had been cast into doubt, sapping criticism against Bush of its power.
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Yah, I mistakenly left O'Reilly on Fox on while I got dinner. He can't fathom Dan doing something dishonest... mistaken maybe, but dishonest? fraudulent? no way.
go sell yer t-shirts bill.
I don't think people want to access static media on their television. They get enough of that from the MSM.
I imagine that the convergence will be broadband digital custom content. I figure one day you'll be able to configure a news channel to play your favorite news shows, pull local news from any zip code, and stuff like that.
Sort of like video Free Republic... actually - that would be so cool. Free Republic digital cable channel. Oh, if only I had a few billion and access to a couple of cable companies.
My husband listens to NPR, but when confroted with the visuals that acompany this story he is not buying CBS's stance. He sat in amazement with me tonight, pondering aloud, "Why would Dan Rather do that?"
Welcome to FR. I'm one of those freepers who doesn't mind saying I listen to NPR in my car. Some of the news stories are okay, but the liberal slant in other stories is enough to choke on -- if I wasn't such a news junkie, and if I didn't live somewhere with no alternative.
As I read the entire piece I thought it was going somewhere, but then it suddenly just dropped away into some irrelevant anecdote about Drudge. The author inexplicably failed to note that the CBS documents have been proved to be forgeries a hundred ways. and thoroughly discredited by everybody closely associated with the alleged author.
Strange column. I never heard of Joe Hagan before. Is he somebody?
O'Reilly can't whitewash this. Rather's a fool or guilty of conspiracy to perpetrate a fraud...and a whole bunch of federal stuff, too. Okay, Rather's definitely a fool since his memos have been shown to be bogus. His defense is tortured, lame, pure politics. O'Reilly wants to keep getting invites to chi chi MSM parties, and he's a bigger fool than Rather.
"...The next day, the major newspapers reported on the controversy and last Friday evening, Dan Rather felt compelled to go on-air again to defend the validity of the documents. Not too shabby for an anonymous Web guy named Buckhead.
[LOL! Something Joe has never accomplished despite his lifetime of trying!]
...But before we start handing our journalism awards to Buckhead, it's good to recall last February, when the Drudge Report unleashed a gravity-defying headline declaring that John Kerry had had an affair ..."
Concur. That's all I could take away from watching him. Professional courtesy among snakes.
it's time to FREEP IBM!!! let them know you want THEM to clear up this mess and will hold them ACCOUNTABLE if they don't by never buying anything from IBM ever again!!! goto IBM.com and use Contact Us at the bottom of the page.
I listen to NPR in my car too. Their liberal slant is grating and occasionally causes me to proclaim out loud and shake my fist in the air like a right-wing Fidel Castro -- but on stories that aren't in-your-face political I enjoy their excellent production values and the fact that they'll spend some time on a story. I appreciate their thoroughness. I also like the music in between segments. Plus no ads. All in all, NPR would be a near perfect news experience if they could just keep their biases to themselves.
Whoops...proclaim = exclaim
What a pathetic commentary. Snide, and almost totally without content. It truly illustrates the intellectual bankruptcy of the left.
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