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NYP: DAN RATHER'S WELL-EARNED FEAR - The MSM has no one to blame but themselves.
New York Post ^ | September 21, 2005 | Arnold Ahlert

Posted on 09/21/2005 5:33:27 AM PDT by OESY

In a speech Monday at Fordham University School of Law in Manhattan, Dan Rather claimed there was a "new journalism order": politicians applying pressure to news conglomerates, "dumbed-down, tarted-up" news coverage, 24-hour cable competition and a "chase for rating and demographics" — all of which creates an "atmosphere of fear" in newsrooms greater than anything he has seen in his four-decade career.

What kind of fear? Certainly not the fear of broadcasting "inaccurate" stories, such as Rather's own bogus report on the president's National Guard service. Not the fear of journalistic bias as in the mainstream media's attempt to blame the president for absolutely everything that went wrong with the regard to the Katrina disaster.

And certainly not the fear of unbalanced coverage, such as the virtual blackout of positive news regarding the War on Terror.

The "fear" in newsrooms is all about the undoing of unbridled arrogance that comes with a loss of power. It is about the competition of ideas engendered by a raft of new media challenging the near-monopoly status quo formerly enjoyed by network news "icons" such as Rather himself.

It is about an American public that now knows that the slogan "the most trusted man in America," once used to describe Walter Cronkite, no longer applies to any member of the mainstream media.

The worst fear of all? They have no one to blame but themselves.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cbs; cronkite; fordhamlaw; media; msm; rather
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1 posted on 09/21/2005 5:33:28 AM PDT by OESY
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To: OESY

I must have died and gone to heaven---


2 posted on 09/21/2005 5:35:53 AM PDT by basil (Exercise your Second Amendment--buy another gun today!)
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To: OESY
"dumbed-down, tarted-up" news coverage..."

What's he talking about? He was himself first and foremost the premier practitioner of 'Dumbed-Down and tarted-up'. Dan wrote the book on that one!

Shows like his (wasn't that Dan with Connie Chung?) and all that hype and showy crap are the reason FOX succeeded!
3 posted on 09/21/2005 5:37:05 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus)
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To: OESY

The truth is that the MSM has a socialist agenda and will push news that furthers that agenda, create lies that furthers that agenda, and refuse to carry anything that lessens that agenda.


4 posted on 09/21/2005 5:37:15 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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To: OESY

Dan's still living in denial BUMP! He's nothing but a chicken shit out of work liberal.


5 posted on 09/21/2005 5:37:56 AM PDT by conservativecorner
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To: OESY
Hey Dan, try the TRUTH. Like conservatism, it works every time its tried.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

6 posted on 09/21/2005 5:39:21 AM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: OESY
Dan Rather waiting for an unsuspecting blogger to walk by the Book Depository building.


7 posted on 09/21/2005 5:41:15 AM PDT by frankjr
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To: SMARTY
They're ALL talking about Fox News Channel.

How sweet it is!!!!

8 posted on 09/21/2005 5:48:24 AM PDT by OldFriend (One Man With Courage Makes a Majority ~ Andrew Jackson)
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To: basil

Reaping what he sowed.


9 posted on 09/21/2005 5:48:28 AM PDT by Coachm
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To: OESY

Anyone who watches live event on C-SPAN or reads stuff on Internet and then "gets it" from MSM, can see how the bias and outright lying is being served by MSM. Major BARF, no need to waste time to watch bloviators. Thank God for FR and bless Jim fRobinson!


10 posted on 09/21/2005 5:50:09 AM PDT by Leo Carpathian (FReeeePeee!)
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To: OESY
 

STUCK ON
STUPID

 

12 posted on 09/21/2005 6:01:04 AM PDT by mikrofon (Courage)
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To: OESY

It's all Kenneth's fault.


13 posted on 09/21/2005 6:12:13 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
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To: OESY

Dan is pulling his best "grumpy senile grandpa yelling at the grandkids" routine.

"Back in my day, everything cost a nickel!"


14 posted on 09/21/2005 6:15:21 AM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican
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To: mikrofon

heh heh heh.


15 posted on 09/21/2005 6:25:34 AM PDT by Fido969 ("And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32).)
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To: Fido969

And the New York Times is cutting 500 jobs......I love liberals..rather than change their business model...(more consertative) they will just run it into the ground....


16 posted on 09/21/2005 6:28:36 AM PDT by Youngman442002
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To: Youngman442002
Surely my puny cancellation of the New York Slimes didn't cause a 500 job loss.

HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!HA, May The New York Slimes Die A Slow DEATH-Good Riddance to a main stream news whore enabling yellow rag.........
17 posted on 09/21/2005 6:37:35 AM PDT by OKIEDOC (There's nothing like hearing someone say thank you for your help.)
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To: Fido969


18 posted on 09/21/2005 6:38:06 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Fake But Accurate. CBS will never live it down.


19 posted on 09/21/2005 6:53:51 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: OESY

Dam Blather is still blathering. Why tell the truth when lying is so easy?


20 posted on 09/21/2005 7:18:45 AM PDT by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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