[ncpatriot]

Perhaps somebody will know this. In the 50s, I remember studying about "yellow journalism" in the 1800s. Is Rathergate and all the liberal bias in MSM for past 50 considered "yellow journalism"?

[Starboard]

IT'S ALREADY BECOME a cliché to say that over the past two weeks we've been witness to a revolutionary moment in the history of media, the moment when the calcified Establishment that has dominated the dissemination of news in the United States for most of a century shattered like the fragile hip of an octogenarian.

Man, what a great sentence! The whole article is a masterpiece.

[tet68]

Bump. Must read!

[Mia T]

Dan Rather is still trying this trick, asserting that "anybody who knows me knows that I am not politically motivated, not politically active for Democrats or Republicans, and that I'm independent." But it no longer matters much what he may or may not say. He has destroyed himself and his news organization not because he is biased--which of course he is--but because his bias blinded him to the obvious truth that the memos he and his team believed (and/or desperately hoped) might help derail the reelection bid of George W. Bush were fabricated. They believed this because they wanted to believe it.

Dan Rather's Day of Reckoning
From the October 4, 2004 issue: It didn't start with Rathergate.
by John Podhoretz
10/04/2004, Volume 010, Issue 04

A bit of circular reasoning here.

Podhoretz's premise, that Rather wouldn't engage in the fraud knowingly or at least consciously -- (the latter option defies common scence and is a bit too New-Age-y for my sensibilities, in any case) -- is something presumably left for a possible conclusion.

RATHERGATE IS ANOTHER WATERGATE: The Nexus
So where are the grand juries, special prosecutors + indictments, anyway? (HEY! Where are the calls for them?)^{(computer-generated superscript) BUMP}

 

 

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