Posted on 09/13/2004 3:24:34 PM PDT by KeyLargo
Editorials Dan Rather’s Blunder:
The Day Old Media Died? Editorial by CK Rairden September 13, 2004
The coverage of the presidential campaign saw an interesting turn during the month of August. The most damaging aspect to either candidate came from a group of veterans called the “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.” But the old media tried to ignore them and shut them out of the campaign. Enter the new media, a combination of the Internet blogosphere, Matt Drudge, talk radio and Fox News.
They crammed the “SwiftVets” down the collective throats of the old media, and as they never attempted to do their jobs, they lost the battle. The old media candidate, John F. Kerry, was so rattled that he hid from all media after August 9th. Kerry apparently was paralyzed with fear, afraid to answer the very pointed questions that emerged from the book, “Unfit for Command,” the number one best-seller written by the SwiftVet leader John O’Neill.
So the old media picked last week to strike back. You could just feel the protest, ‘how dare these bloggers and Matt Drudge join talk radio and Fox News and take over the coverage of this campaign.’ So they trotted out old media dinosaur Dan Rather to put these upstarts in their place.
Rather and CBS fired up 60 Minutes II with claims of “incredible documents” ready to show that President George W. Bush got special treatment in 1972 and 1973 in the Texas National Guard. Armed with these memos and a partisan Kerry hack named Ben Barnes, Rather carefully laid out his case....
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I prefer 'When the Music's Over' by the DOORS. It fits the early '70s.
hope so.
i didn't like rather in 1973.
had a girlfriend that moved to georgetown, and wrote me a letter, "i live down the street from dan rather"!
i wrote back "i'd rather not live down the street from dan rather".
never heard from her again.
Gosh I love that song. I am going to sing it for the rest of the night now.
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Gee, I just put my headphones on again:):)
He had some wierd feelings towards his parents. Can anyone say Oedipus?
Jim Morrisson had some weird feelings on stage too:) But he has a good record with music. He got started about 15 miles from here in a night club called The Starwood.
Are you in So CAL?
I am within 8 minutes from the Reagan Library with an empty 118 FWY. Are you?
Where is or was the Starwood? I saw the Doors in a little club in Santa Clara just before they went national.
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I'm a bathrobe person.
The Starwood was on Sunset BLVD in Hollywood. It was a big club. 2-3 bands playing there by the late 70's.
Morrison was falling off the stage right from the beginning!
To cheers?:) I remember that time.
The last time I went to the Starwood, which was about '78, you could smell pot smoke 2 blocks before getting there.
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