Great article, Mr. Thomas
Posted on 11/26/2004 1:46:41 AM PST by Quilla
Great article, Mr. Thomas
So tempting, so tempting.
A subtle pun at Rather's own autobiography "The Camera Never Blinks"?
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Good read, but another piece that won't float to the top where the masses will see it..
P.S. It was Rather that pushed old Uncle Walter ("The Most Trusted Man in America") out the door when he made it plain that he could do other things if he didn't get the anchor chair on his timetable.
I could have sworn I saw her standing next to the Crack whore down the street.... oh never mind
It was a foreshadow of things to come...
Kennedy School of Government discussion 'The Press and the Election'
Shorenstein Center panel convenes Brokaw, Jennings, Lehrer, Rather, Woodruff
On this panel discussion about the state of the media (before Rather's recent memo Waterloo), Rather and Woodruff were evidently a bit cowed by the severe freeping they were getting; concerned Americans were apparently complaining to their studios -- especially via E-mail.
Judy was particularly concerned that this could disrupt her professional focus!
Angry comments were apparently effective in making them realize that many of the American people are actually afraid of the press and what they're doing to our nation with their selfish partisanship. As noted below, the whole transcript is there to read. I may post a thread for its URL if I get enough interest. It's a 77-page PDF file.
I'd be exaggerating if I said that the discussion empasized how the panelists felt intimidated. But I picked up on that.
MS. WOODRUFF: No, I don't see it as a media problem. And I'm going to chime in with what Jim, what he and Tom have said, I mean it's going on but what we do in our newsrooms, the decisions we make about what we are going to cover and how we are going to approach stories can't change because people are out there fighting each other. Sure, it makes it an interesting story and we want to cover that story. But in no way should we feel on the defensive for example, if we get a lot of e-mails or letters or calls or whatever, and people are saying, you're not representing that point of view, sure, we should pay attention, we want what we do, to a degree, to be interactive, we want to be responsive, in a way. But it can never govern what we do. And I would just add here, I think a lot of this divisiveness that we are talking about here this morning has been churned up by our political leadership, I mean there is a lot that they are doing, both political parties, to churn this up. --Transcript
Scary pic... Why do they all have the same shaped heads?
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A man who truly loves his country does not try to take down a sitting president with a smear campaign knowingly based on forged documents. Rather's hatred of Republicans will be his legacy...his dress stain if you will.
I just realized of whom the aging Dan reminds me in his photos- He looks like his old nemesis J. Edgar Hoover, with hair. Must be a personality thing...
ping to my link to the Shorenstein Center panel on media and politics from earlier in the year (right before the DNC convention). Some fortuitous stuff from Brokaw, Jennings, Lehrer, Rather, and Woodruff.
The MSM needs to learn the old/early digital programing bit,,,Garbage-In-Garbge-Out.
The Old Media never stood for the unfiltered dissemination of information for the interpretation of the people - they stood for the art and power of filtering it for us for their own political ends. They were and are unelected political operatives that until the cable and the Internet came along enjoyed enormous influence.
Dan Rather's latest blunt instrument attack on George Bush, timed to influence the election, is only the latest from 40 years of these types of tactics. The difference is that this time, we have other means to get information and he and his cohorts stood exposed in the open.
>>I think a lot of this divisiveness that we are talking about here this morning has been churned up by our political leadership, I mean there is a lot that they are doing, both political parties, to churn this up. --<<
What? MS. WOODRUFF is concerned with this divisiveness caused by political diversity?
Well said indeed. Now that RatherBiased Dan is being allowed to ride off into the sunset like a Texas Toad hopping merrily across old U.S. 90 on a hot July afternoon in search of an old '57 Chevy hubcap filled with rainwater, everyone seems to want to let Danno off the hook.
NO FRIGGIN WAY!
As you (TGB) pointed out, what Rather, Mapes, Heyward and the rest of that motley crew were trying to do was to turn a presidential election around in favor of THEIR annointed candidate, John F'in Kerry!
Does anyone with half a brain think that Rather would be announcing his upcoming retirement if the Democratic Party, in a mass orgasm, were preparing for the (gag, choke, spew) Inauguration of President-elect John Forbes Kerry?
No, I didn't think so either.
If Rather is still breathing oxygen on January 21, 2009, I would love to think that FORMER President George W. Bush will direct his attorneys to sue the living dogs--t out of Dan Rather and CBS News for what they did to him personally, and for what CBS did to all of America.
They don't call 'em SEE-BS for nothing.
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