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 ...
Dan . . . when you're standing on a platform held up by three pillars and one of them is Gossip, another is Hearsay and another is Forgery . . if the Forgery pillar collapses, then the platform collapses too and you, sir, get spilled. Dan . . are you here?! You're here, aren't you, Dan?!
Don't you get it, Dan? It's NOT ALL ABOUT YOU AND THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA! This country is in the middle of dealing with much more serious matters than your EGO and your media friends' EGOS.
If you want a perfect example of the liberal Utopia you have devoted your life to producing, just take a look at New Orleans. Yes, there was disgrace there . . and even after the liberal Democrat corrupt politicians have had DECADES to produce by now WHAT OUGHT TO BE a total Utopia in New Orleans. It looks like a lot of people have been rescued . . maybe by the hand of God . . from your liberal Utopia.
And it doesn't matter what level--national or local, networks or newspapers.
LOL ping
I think you've nailed it. They have been left in the dust by the internet revolution, and this little pity party between Kalb and Rather are proof of that.
Yes, Marvin Kalb garbled the facts!
Jim is not active duty military. Buckhead is not a blogger.
And think of it, Marvin Kalb teaches Journalism at Harvard!
It depends on what the definition of "right" is...
FOR THE RECORD: CBS Memos Controversy on Free Republic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1220090/posts
Facts scare the hell out of libs. Think garlic and vampires. Vampires...that's a good analogy for the blood-sucking libs.:-)
I heard clips of the interview on Rush today. What a bunch of disingenuous pap.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210662/posts?page=47#47
The next day, I believe Howlin wrote a summary thread tracing all the fallout from Buckhead's et al's remarks; but I can't find it.
Ha! You posted the link I was referring to in #52 while I was writing the post. Thanks
Buckhead is a website?
Jim is Active Air Force?
who knew?
Who is gets to tell Marv he is so stooooooooopid.
They CHOOSE not to know, if in fact they do not know.
I find it difficult to believe that they DON'T know about FR. We have been a major force since impeachment.
PBS-TV had Kalb on for a while as the PBS "media ethics expert"
His real job was to challenge talk radio, cable, and the internet as "not being 'real journalists' with credentials" - and that 'rigid controls' needed to be put on those he did not approve of - Sound like Hillary?
Kalb is a leftie clown
Many reporters and editors never finished more than two years in college
We also have the nutcase Klugman/Rich jerks who drift into being politics and foreign affairs "experts" while taking big under the table payoffs from corporations and foundations
Bernard Goldberg's book "Bias" documenting heavily leftist bias in the media just killed these pansy lefties
At least until the next promotion board.....
Brother Bernie has a new chapter to write....
Dumb & Dumber II
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