Posted on 11/03/2005 10:15:17 AM PST by Birdstrike
"Former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather on Tuesday delivered a pointed message to an audience of young people at the University of Maine.
"News is something people need to know which someone, somewhere, doesn’t want them to know,” Rather said. "All the rest is advertising.”
Speaking at the Maine Center for the Arts on the University of Maine campus, Rather called for a return to what he termed "independent journalism,” warning his listeners to cast a wary eye of the plethora of "new media" outlets that he said feign objectivity while working to advance their own - or another's - agenda, according to the Bangor Daily News.
Many of these students had never heard of Rather, according to the newspaper, because few of them watch evening news shows or read daily newspapers. A large portion of the audience receives its information from various Web sites and "non-traditional” news media.
Rather - who was driven from his anchor seat largely because bloggers and other "new media” outlets, such as NewsMax.com, exposed his use of forged documents last year to falsely attack President Bush of shirking National Guard duty - says that such media sources should be viewed critically.
"You need to ask yourself: Is more better, and is all that calls itself news really news?" said Rather, who turned 74 this week.
Rather praised the youthful audience as "more sophisticated because you have much more information coming in.” However, the former news anchor tempered the compliment immediately afterward.
"Your intelligence is not yet matched by the information that you need,” he said."
Rather says to, "cast a wary eye of the plethora of "new media" outlets that feign objectivity while working to advance their own - or another's - agenda."
Oh please. Everything we've learned, we've learned from you, Dan.
Is he deliberately disengenuous or is he truly...clueless? Whatever. Like Bill, I wish he'd just...go away.
"News is something people need to know which someone, somewhere, doesn’t want them to know,” Rather said. "All the rest is advertising.”
That's EXACTLY why we're here, Dan!
No, Dan, it's not. You've already proved that. That's why we need the "new media."
Afraid you, as usual, are too late, you lying puke.
Dan, you are right to beware the "new media".
It kicked your ass out of television.
I bet that was good nap time to sit in on.
my goodness... this man is so full of sh*%
Best line in the whole article.
Ah so. Missed it. Sorry for the duplicate post.
Yep, the 'new media' left Rather and Mapes butt-naked and hanging out! Mapes is out foaming at the mouth too, damned bloggers! How DARE anyone have an independent thought!
Dan, you are right to beware the "new media".
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Typical MSM liberal. They are like little children, who have had their little utopian sand castles of control, stomped on by the big bully --- "THE NEW MEDIA".
Whine you liberal hypocrites....
Dan Rather is just another liberal jerk-weed moonbat that doesn't get it!
"News is something people need to know which someone, somewhere, doesn’t want them to know,” Rather said. "All the rest is advertising.”
Just where does an earthquake in China fit in this definition?
The new media "feigns" objectivity much better than Rather feigns speaking the truth. They are upfront about their biases. Even DU beats Rather on this point.
"You need to ask yourself: Is more better, and is all that calls itself news really news?" said Rather.
Yes, Dan, more IS better. People have the right to red meat news, not predigested pap that fits the elite's opinion of what it is good for us to know. Most people actually can rub two brain cells together and strike a spark of intellect. I don't mean those jackasses at DU, and other similar people who think who are either honest or well-intentioned, of course.
This is the biggest load of crap he has said since, well, since the faked memo fiasco. This statement shows fairly well how he, and probably most of the MSM, think. It all has to do with good guys and bad guys. They're the white hats....
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