See BS has just made me an offer i couldn't refuse...
Posted on 11/24/2004 4:28:17 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
Dan Rather didn't die Tuesday, but "Dan Rather" did.
That Rather had aged into caricature status (the brush cut, the weird glare, the Texas drawl) was being advanced even by his own network, which on election night kept e-mailing reporters Rather colloquialisms, so-called Danisms, including: "It don't mean a thing if they don't get those swings," and: "This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex."
Rather, it is said beyond the official statements, is stepping down ahead of the potential for more embarrassing details from a CBS investigation into his Sept. 8 report on "60 Minutes" that President Bush received preferential treatment during his Vietnam-era service in the Texas Air National Guard. The 73-year-old anchor initially stood by the story and then was forced to contort himself into an apology for its reliance on apparently bogus documents. The Rather watch had begun....[snip]
[snip]On CNN Tuesday, Vanity Fair's Michael Wolff cast the departures of Rather and Brokaw as harbingers of a larger death — the death of network news. And the networks, Wolff said, are in fact happy about this, because Brokaw's and Rather's exits "hastens the day when [the networks] can get out of this business."
Why, it doesn't seem hard to wonder, would the networks want to continue to compete for eyeballs when television has trained viewers to seek out the instant visual and/or opinion 24 hours a day? It used to matter that an anchor came on once a day and told you what was important to know about the world. Nowadays the anchors are interchangeable, and everything they tell you leaves you on edge......"
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Yes, the butt end.
CBS should hire Howard Stern to replace Rather..IT solve a lot of problems..
what the heck is the difference between alphabet nightly news and the stuff on snl...no loss baby..just lower blood pressures for all of us...bc boy
There is always PBS/NPR ...
Dubya leaves another pompous ass lying in his wake. Sweet.
I thought the network news was to slant the news to fit their agenda. How can they do that if they get out of the business? - Tom
One, they realize it is not working.
Two, there is more money to be made in other programming.
A bit odd that a business with the income stream of the major networks would work so hard to insure its demise.
Network comedy shows have all but disappeared - ethnic humor and male role model bashing are the principle themes, each of which have a very limited audience appreciation.
The "docu-news" pseudo-entertainment, "60 Minutes" -"20-20" - lately "Nightline" as well, have degenerated into thinly veiled democratic party/liberal re-education lectures not much better than the disgusting "West Wing."
The final evidence of the inevitable demise of the networks is the headlong stampede to the so-called "Reality Shows" which make the bread-and-circus entertainment of the declining Roman Empire seem almost uplifting.
The prophesy of Minow is now complete: Television is finally, in truth, a Vast Intellectual Wasteland.
The mismanagement evident in networks (not just CBS, but ABC and NBC as well - eagerly willing to throw away their own credibility and the money of their investors in a Pickett's Charge against Bush in the last election - and PBS throwing away (as usual) the tax dollars of the public they seek to brainwash.....
My view of the demise of the networks -- "I can't begin to tell you how little I care."
They destroyed the franchise.
Dan's exodus from CBS fulfills a Biblical prophesy, you know.
"Rather, you were thrown out into the open field, for on the day you were born you were despised." (Ezekiel 16:5)
Uh. SNL is, occasionally, funny? The alphabet nets ongoing campaign to socialize our country and surrender overseas is not?
i intended a sarcastic remark...i think the snl people are quite comedic a lot of the time altho i get tired of the guff your president has to take
See BS has just made me an offer i couldn't refuse...
Hire Rush, Gordon Liddy, or any other of such like minded folks and they'd be back in business.
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Perhaps the Los Angeles Times should ask something of its very own Media Critic...
DAVID SHAW: RATHER's work 'Shoddy, Slipshod' but not LIBERAL..?
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