Great article, Mr. Thomas
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.
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
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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.
The MSM needs to learn the old/early digital programing bit,,,Garbage-In-Garbge-Out.
Spot on article, IMO. I'm joyous over watching cBS & Co slowly go down the dumper. And I'm hoping the others will follow, in due time, when the rest of America finally wakes-up and realizes that they've been lied to for the past 40+ years.
A blogger is "a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing what he thinks"?
Who wears pajamas? I thought the uniform of the day was a pair of socks.
Seriously, who watches and who among the rest of us cares? The day when these people had serious influence and that influence was growing is long gone. There may be a trace remaining but it is tiny and disappearing fast. And Dumbass Dan is one of the primary reasons.
It wasnt in his living room, it was in his bedroom.
he gets it, but not all of it.....When he says "for the once great CBS" he refers to ol'Walter days but the truth is that those days were just as much of a con job as Dan Rather's days.
Walter lied, spun and worked the main stream media into a defeatist anti war, anti military madness. His fith column attack handed us our first defeat and laid the groundwork for 50 years of socialism. With the help of John Kerry and Jane Fonda, Walter influenced the youth of our country and did more to start the decline of the now famous "moral values" than any other so called "newsman".
The only difference between the "once great CBS" and "The irrelevant CBS" is the fact that the POWER OF INFORMATION is no longer their sole property. CBS has always been a liberal bastion...only now others have the means to prove it. VIVA FREEREPUBLIC!
IMO, the timing of Rather's "retirement" announcement has more to do with the contents of the internal investigation at SeeBS than anything else. I believe the contents of the report have been leaked to Dandy Dan and he took the bait to get out while the getting was good before SeeBS management were forced to fire him based on the internal investigation's report.
IOW, Rather, essentially, is being forced out as opposed to retiring at his own will. SeeBS "C's" the handwriting on the wall. Their ratings have continued to plummet and Rather & Co. have helped accelerate that fact. The internal investigation will do nothing for Rather's cause.
If there is justice in the world, Rather should be taking Mapes with him. For all we know, Mapes is still "working" on the phony Bush/Guard story. After more than 5 years on this non-story, one would think that is there were any "there" there, it would have been discovered.
For all of their efforts, the best they could do was try to smear a sitting president with forged documents besmirching his honorable service to the nation versus any serious investigation of John Kerry's "heroic" (gag, barf) service.
Since this is what passes for "news" these days in the MSM, is it any wonder that so many of us prefer to get our news from cyberspace and just let these talking bobblehead dolls talk to themselves?
The only good thing about Rather was the entertaintment he provide at the 68 Democrat Convention when he was punched in the gut by one of mayor daily's goons
Before Peter Jennings became the anchor at ABC there was a black man who filled the spot. He died at an early age. Anyone remember his name?
It didn't have to be this way for Dan Rather or for the once great CBS.
Richard Nixon was a once great president.
Dam Rather and CBS were never great.