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Posted on 09/27/2005 4:03:25 PM PDT by freedrudge
RUSH: I want to now go to these Dan Rather sound bites. Dan Rather was interviewed last night at the National Press Club in Washington by former CBS News employee-reporter Marvin Kalb. Marvin Kalb now runs the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Shorenstein Center at Harvard, and you know something? When you hear these bites you're going to understand what I'm saying here. This is one of the problems of the mainstream media today. When these reporters that get long in the tooth get laid off or retired, they farm them out to these think tanks and these journalism schools and these government schools, and these old guys start inculcating their old-media, old-world views into these students, and that's why nothing changes. Some of this (laughing) especially sound bite #2 here,
....KALB: Every now and then it even looks as if the new media is at war with the old media. I want to go back to the National Guard story of last year. I've always been astonished that even before the program ended -- it was still on -- a blog site called FreeRepublic.com run by an active Air Force officer blasted the program. Four hours later another website called Buckhead ran a detailed critique of the documents that you used in the report. What happened, then, was that dozens of other bloggers joined in, then the mainstream media joined in, and then everything shifted and the focus was on you! The focus was not on the substance of your story --
(Excerpt) Read more at rushlimbaugh.com ...
KALB: You just said that, um, (pause) you think the story is "accurate."
RATHER: Well, the story is "accurate."
KALB: Okay.
I usually don't get a chance to listen to Rush, but today I was able to catch that segment of the show. I was cheering and screaming. Did any of you hear me? I'm sure that the other drivers around me thought that I has lost it. Oh well, it the price you pay when you are a Freeper.
Rush did mention lgf today.
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Good grief! If they can mess up the facts about that night this badly, what does that say about the accuracy (or lack of!) in everything else they report on!!
Poop-flingers all.
JR I didn't know that you were an active duty Air Force Officer. Buckhead what's the name of the website you run?
Hehehehehehehe they can't even get the facts of what hit em in the head correct!
hehehehehehe
Ah, how sweet to hear the MSM snarlin' and screamin'!
Thank God this Rather-biased anchor is now retired. Unfortunately, there are more where he came from.
Lecturer in Public Policy
Senior Fellow
Shorenstein Center
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Tel: (202)518-2239
Fax: (202)518-2250
email: marvin_kalb@harvard.edu
No Shiite! Jim Robinson has been wheel chair bound since 1996. He served in the Navy, not the Air Force (although we'd love to claim him :) ). He was not a commissioned officer, although he was a Third Class Petty Officer, way back when. Can they get it any more wrong than that?
Haven't you noticed that whenever you actually know something, from prior experience or education, about what they write, you find all sorts of errors. What does that tell you about the stuff you did not have knowledge of before?
They haven't gotten anything right yet! Why should we expect they would get this right?
They are just being true to form.
That's exactly what I'm suggesting.
1. Free Republic is not a blog.
2. The documents were questioned first by TankerKC because the signatures were right justified, something that could be noticed at a glance. The proportional fonts were not discovered until CBS proudly posted them at their website, and they could be studied properly.
3. The owner of FR is not active duty military. (although TankerKC might be.
4. Buckhead is a poster on Free Republic, not a web site.
With all of these errors in one question, how he could possibly denigrate the internet for not doing proper research? An e-mail is going to Mr. Kalb right now, although I doubt he has the guts to answer.
I've sent him an email also asking him about fact checking.
Too bad that Rush didn't seem to pick up on the glaring inaccuracies in this statement. I've counted at least 5 mistakes in just that one sentence. Incredible that a show about journalism can't even get the facts straight.
They can not get their facts straight because they do not know how to navigate internet forums, search for blogs or maximize the use of search engines for dated facts.
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