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Brokaw Move Rekindles Rumors of Rather
Retirement (Inside CBS's Dilemma)
RatherBiased.com ^
| 2003-11-30
Posted on 11/30/2003 1:11:41 PM PST by RatherBiased.com
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To: RatherBiased.com
If Rather leaves, will RatherBiased.com retain its name?
I suppose you could, since all the rest of them are biased too.
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posted on
11/30/2003 1:15:48 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Cicero; RatherBiased.com
If Rather leaves, will RatherBiased.com retain its name? I suppose you could, since all the rest of them are biased too.
If Rather goes into the kind of retirement that Cronkite did, there will be plenty of reason for RatherBiased.com to continue its existence.
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posted on
11/30/2003 1:21:56 PM PST
by
Paleo Conservative
(Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
To: RatherBiased.com
All these anchors do is read what's handed to them,look good,and earn lots of money.
Most of the folks on FR could do that so what is the big deal about this?
They aren't newsmen anymore,just overpaid readers.
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posted on
11/30/2003 1:22:03 PM PST
by
Mears
To: RatherBiased.com
The networks are dying dinosaurs. Brokaw, Rather and Jennings still reach huge audiences, but these audiences are diminishing in their importance, especially regarding electoral politics. Let's face it: none of them are "hip" and none of them reflect the basic love for country that is prevalent these days. As the "raised on cable" generation grows older, the audience of the Big 3 Network News divisions are going to swirl down the commode of irrelevancy. And I love it.
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posted on
11/30/2003 1:23:11 PM PST
by
Recovering_Democrat
(I'm so glad to no longer be associated with the Party of Dependence on Government!)
To: Cicero
They stay on way too long in that job. Jennings has been anchor since 1983 (20 years), Brokaw, has been the anchor since 1983 (20 years), Blather has been anchor since 1981 (22 years).
Enough already. Thankfully, the big 3's influence has diminished, but I find it sad, that these 3 guys have been the major source of news for most americans for close to a quarter of a century.
If President's can be term limited, so should anchors. 8 years, and it's time to get a new warm body there. There is a certain cynicism inherent in being a top dog all the way since the first Reagan term. I think it is obvious in the way they cover the presidency. I would rather have some somebody who is 35 now take the job until they are 42. They make enough money so they can retire, write their memoirs, or teach at that point.
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posted on
11/30/2003 1:26:00 PM PST
by
dogbyte12
To: Recovering_Democrat
There are some people at CBS who think the network should not even bother hiring a replacement for Rather. They'd prefer to give the time to the entertainment side. Many affiliates would prefer to have the time to themselves.
To: RatherBiased.com
Dan Rather, Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw need to resign or retire. They're has-beens with credibility problems lacking since the '92 campaign. Plus, none are doing the networks any good at all.
To: RatherBiased.com
In an new Time of War...
with an Enemy that is now...
just around the Corner and...
up your street...
it's still the Friends of HILLARY
DAN RATHER
TOM BROKAW
PETER JENNINGS
who are still allowed to hide her own worst misbehaviors from the American People
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posted on
11/30/2003 1:33:55 PM PST
by
ALOHA RONNIE
(Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 www.LZXRAY.com)
To: Mears
I asked that same question once and was told that Rather and the other major on-air people are also editor-in-chief of content that gets read too. This would explain why CBS news sucks so bad (besides RatherBiased and his spin)
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posted on
11/30/2003 1:34:04 PM PST
by
Mr. K
To: RatherBiased.com
I know he's a lib, but I really respect Brokaw. Maybe it's more personal, I just like him.
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posted on
11/30/2003 1:46:24 PM PST
by
bethelgrad
(for God, country, and the Corps OOH RAH!)
To: RatherBiased.com
Courage!
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posted on
11/30/2003 1:54:35 PM PST
by
Loyalist
(Oldthinkers unbellyfeel Amchurch.)
To: bethelgrad
If I could understand a word of what ol' "mush mouth" Brokaw said, I might like him, too!
To: martin_fierro; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; =Intervention=; PianoMan; GOPJ; Miss Marple; Tamsey; ...
This is the New York Times CBS News Schadenfreude Ping List. Freepmail me to be added or dropped.
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posted on
11/30/2003 2:04:08 PM PST
by
Timesink
(I'm not a big fan of electronic stuff, you know? Beeps ... beeps freak me out. They're bad.)
To: RatherBiased.com
Dan Rather = Archie Bunker no common sense...
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posted on
11/30/2003 2:20:17 PM PST
by
hosepipe
To: bethelgrad; RatherBiased.com
...After the CLINTONS had Columbia University award AP a quick Pulitzer Prize for a false story about the U.S. 7th Cavalry's Massacring Korean civiilians at the Bridge of NO GUN RI during the Korean War...
...Friend of HILLARY TOM BROKAW promoted this Media Lie on NBC's
'Nightly News' & 'Dateline NBC.'
...After a Pentagon Investigation, JOE GALLOWAY's U.S. News Investigative Reports and Major ROBERT BATEMAN's book 'NO GUN RI: A History of the Korean War Incident' found there was no such Massacre...
...TOM BROKAW never rescinded his TV Lie to the American People. Nor has Friend of HILLARY Columbia University ever taken back AP's ill-gotten NO GUN RI Pulitzer.
The Enemy is now Within...
and always has been.
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posted on
11/30/2003 2:31:18 PM PST
by
ALOHA RONNIE
(Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 www.LZXRAY.com)
To: Recovering_Democrat
Old anchormen never die,
they just smell that way!
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posted on
11/30/2003 5:56:55 PM PST
by
SwinneySwitch
(Freedom isn't Free - Support those who ensure it!)
To: RatherBiased.com
This may be why the nets are keeping these old left wing hacks. When the ratings drop enough on one of the them, the net will just cancel the program like you noted in your reply.
"There are some people at CBS who think the network should not even bother hiring a replacement for Rather. They'd prefer to give the time to the entertainment side. Many affiliates would prefer to have the time to themselves."
When this happens, the other two nets will drop their old left wing goats.
If GW is re elected with a big landslide inspite of the 3 nets and their old liberal nightly news hacking, all 3 nets will drop their evening news in the next year.
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posted on
11/30/2003 6:18:51 PM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(Sore@US, the Evil Daddy War bucks, has owned the Demonic Rats for decades!)
To: RatherBiased.com
Give Dan Rather's job to Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, or Michelle Malkin and watch the ratings soar!
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posted on
11/30/2003 6:32:10 PM PST
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: Grampa Dave
DAN RATHER
TOM BROKAW
PETER JENNINGS
...will all keep their TV News Anchor Jobs at least long enough to do all they can to get their Friend HILLARY back into our Oval Office in 2004.
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posted on
11/30/2003 6:40:06 PM PST
by
ALOHA RONNIE
(Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 www.LZXRAY.com)
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