Posted on 05/30/2015 11:05:36 AM PDT by PROCON
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — The legendary Bob Schieffer is calling it a career Sunday as he hosts his last “Face the Nation.”
Schieffer joined CBS News in 1969 and in that span he covered the White House, State Department, Pentagon, Capitol Hill, anchored the “CBS Evening News,” and hosted “Face the Nation” the past 24 years.
Washington has changed dramatically when he began covering the nation’s capital. Schieffer told “CBS This Morning” on Friday that the “revolution in communications” has turned D.C. “upside-down.”
“We now don’t know where people get their news, but what we do know is they’re bombarded with information 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Most of the information is wrong and some of it is wrong on purpose,” Schieffer said. “It is our job, I think, in mainstream journalism to try to cut through this mall of information and tell people what we think is relevant in what they need to know. That is the job of the journalist and I have to say it’s harder and harder.”
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Both Rather and Schieffer were in Dallas when JFK was assassinated. They were in the right place at the wrong time and it boosted both their careers.
Dear Bob,
Not from you or your ilk!
I often learn more from the comments, than I do the actual articles.
He didn't hit it hard enough.
if one’s only source of news is CBS they are in the low-information fold.
That guy was nothing but a commie and has been all his adult life. Good riddance.
Because Minow threatened outright to cancel their broadcast licenses. Minow was the FCC chairman who gave the famous "vast wasteland" speech. Prior to his tenure most entertainment television was produced by independent studios that found their own sponsors and leased airtime from the networks. Basically, it was the radio industry model transplanted to television. Minow didn't like this arrangement because it was too difficult to regulate what sort of messages went out over the airwaves. He claimed it was too violent and wasn't socially responsible, etc. His threats forced the three television networks to assume direct control over all programming. In 1964 We lost programs like American Playhouse and The Untouchables. In their place we got crap like The Beverly Hillbillies and Gilligan's Island. Entertainment TV became mind-numbingly apolitical and television news became slanted toward the agenda of the Democratic party.
The yellow stain was deep from all those years with nothing but Yeller Dog Dems.
no doubt the news always has been slanted toward the democrat party ... The media has always remembered it was democrats that first buttered their bread and the bread of their families. Continues much the same way since then till today. Is simply a large money laundering operation ...
Bob, you don’t know where people get their news? We get it from the net...we don’t need a trained parrot reading the news...
ABC, CBS, NBC, LA Times, NY Times, Time-Life-CNN, AFP, Newsweak, Boston Globe, et al have ALL been caught RED handed making up news item and "documents" to support their partisan and sensational claims (fauxtography in photoshop, forged documents faxed to their own office, planting model rocket explosives on gas tanks, false quotes, false witnesses, etc etc.)...
The LEFTIST dominated media establishment have been bald faced liars for 2 generations now. They are just wee weed up that their monopoly on information has come crashing down. Only Dan Ratherbiased was run out of town on a rail. All of them should have faced criminal charged for forgery, tampering with evidence, libel, FEC violations, FCC violations, and more.
Legend has it that Bob Schieffer was legendary. Legends aren’t always true...
They look like the Honeymooners to me.
the original Animation feature Laurel and Hardy
the next one is going to feature Bill and Hillary Clinton
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