Posted on 09/28/2004 5:43:45 PM PDT by conservativecorner
WASHINGTON -- Up to this point I have refrained from commenting on the whole CBS controversy. Years ago, when I was the political reporter and weekend anchor at the CBS affiliate in Milwaukee, the CBS news team was regarded as the finest in the nation. When Walter Cronkite told us that this is the way it was, half the nation believed it. I recall when a young Dan Rather, then up and coming, called from his hotel room after watching one our newscasts just to say he thought we had done an excellent job. The whole newsroom glowed for about a week. CBS had a certain integrity to it. It was the network of Edward R. Morrow, after all. I recall our program director Baylen Smith commenting on a CBS documentary on hunger in America explaining to us that now television had real power in America. We could move people on issues. We took our cue from CBS. When they did a documentary or an in-depth feature, we followed up on the local level seeing if we could find in Milwaukee what was documented about New York or Baltimore or Washington.
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Give me a break - Bather is a disgrace as was Cranky Cronkite. I have been throwing stuff at both until cable was introduced (i.e., never credible with me).
Great article! Mr. Y-Rich made some very good points.
I really wanted to be a journalist when I was in my teens, starting at our jr. high paper, and through my sophomore year in high school. That was many years ago, but I still remember how checking one's facts out was stressed, so that the paper wouldn't just be a gossip sheet but would be actual, usable news.
IOW, no accountability.
Yes - as I see it. Bather has to go (even though it's great to see him sweat).
That's a GREAT cartoon! So tbose are the sources they use.
Maybe the rats will throw him a line.
I remember watching TV news in the '60s, and my dad calling Crankcase a commie. I didn't know what he meant back then, but I do now.
I had liberal parents (both) who LOVED Danny Boy. I knew there was somthing up with him when I started getting a clue. I'd laugh at him with my mother in the room, then I'd get the "silent treatment". My mother was kinda clueless (God rest her soul).
There was an episode of All In The Family in which Archie Bunker said the same thing. That was in 1972. Amazing how things turn out.
That's a great cartoon; thanks for posting it!
Cronkite's name is probably an anglicized spelling of the German word Krankheit meaning "sickness."
I'll bet you are right! How funny!
That was a very good piece, but it doesn't look good when he can't spell Murrow's name correctly.
Picky, picky, picky. It was probably the "twenty-something" editor who did the misspelling.
I agree, Dan Rather-NOT should not resign. Let him and C-BS twist in the wind.
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