[Petronski]

RE: the thread title:

Network news is going in the toilet?

[Maceman]

the PAJAMAHIDIN will destroy the network news establishment

I think Pajamarazzi is a much better term.

[EagleUSA]

Rather is just one of the elitist media dinosaurs. They are headed for the tar-pits. Rather's arrogance, and CBS's outright refusal to fire him on the spot, just emboldens the arrogance and criminal behavior of the leftist media -- probably part and parcel to their strategy here.

Let us hope, for the sake of this country, and its freedoms, that the media gets CLEANED UP, and returns to its days when it could be respected for objective journalism and trustworthy news. Those days of old are not with us anymore, a not-so-profound statement, I know.

[clyde260]

Bye Bye, won't miss ya, don't bother writing.

Imagine what this country & world would be without their lying influence all these years?????

What a shame.

[Lijahsbubbe]

He will be remembered as a reporter-crusader who went chasing after the Big Story both courageously and recklessly

Not by me. More like deceitfully and arrogantly.

At any rate, with technology the news cycle is much too fast for the networks news. By the time their program airs, the day's news has already been rehashed times over.

[freegeezer]

I couldn't agree more. Network news influence is on the way out having run into the new forces of instant global communcation available over the web. Finally, the "average Joe" no longer is powerless against the bias and outright lies that have been our pablum since the advent of TV network news. Between the growth of cable TV and and the web, the handwriting is on the wall for the networks.

[highnoon]

What exactly is a 'network' station? Is that one of the channels that shows football/baseball games on Saturday & Sunday? IMO that's all they're good for. Cable & the internet is where I get my news. Gather the story from 10+ different sources, and form my own opinion.

BTW, just put a new bumper sticker on my truck:

"VOTE DEMOCRAT, IT'S EASIER THAN THINKING"

[conservativecorner]

[hockeyrocker]

Rather didn’t simply get caught with his pants down. It’s far worse for the old boy, I’m afraid.

Much like an outtake from “America’s Funniest Home Videos”, Rather actually tried to run down the street with his pants around his ankles while screaming “Fire! Fire!”

It ended badly for Dan, as he ended up falling face-first into the pavement, the ass fully exposed.

Someone should plant an American flag.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Jim Pinkerton gets it.

[NutCrackerBoy]

Prior to the 15th century, the Catholic Church maintained its monopoly in part by controlling Bible production. Bibles were not only scarce but were hand-scribed in Latin, which only priests could read. Then came Johannes Gutenberg, who used movable type to mass-print Bibles, eventually in local languages. Soon ordinary folk were reading the Bible for themselves and thinking for themselves. Protestantism was born. What followed was a century of religious war, but the world was transformed. One of those transformations was the radical new reality that technology would continue shaping events. So today, Rathergate is just so much foam on the surface. The deep current of our time is that the old networks have lost their power to a bunch of scruffy no-names. Techno-change is shaping history yet again. -James Pinkerton

Well done.