Posted on 01/28/2006 1:41:55 PM PST by WestTexasWend
*Fielding preselected audience questions, the former anchor analyzes today's news. Memogate emerges only obliquely.*
If there were any hard questions for Dan Rather, the former anchor and managing editor for CBS Evening News, they would have to wait.
(snip)
What journalism needs, Rather told the audience, is more: more backbone in questioning powerful leaders, more facts (and less speculation), more money and time from publishers, and more international coverage. Journalists, he said, must recognize that they have a duty and reconnect with their role in a system of checks and balances. "American journalism needs a spine transplant and we need it quickly," he said.
Rather cited the movie "Good Night, and Good Luck," observing that CBS news legend Edward R. Murrow was fearless but "couldn't have done it without help from the top. Great journalism begins with a publisher who has guts." The public should also make its voice heard by contacting leaders and publishers, he said.
But he sidestepped the topic of Memogate, the Internet-sparked challenge to the authenticity of documents used on "60 Minutes II" to support a 2004 segment on President Bush's military service. Questions about the story eventually forced out a CBS News producer and three other executives before Rather himself resigned.
(snip)
Obliquely referring to Rather's troubles, one member asked what role bloggers had played in his career. "Their influence was less than perceived," he said, equally obliquely. Some bloggers, he said, have found blogging to be "a good way to further a particular political agenda. It's not a crime," he said. But the public should recognize "there's a new opportunity here to manipulate public opinion."
Some in the audience wanted his opinion of Bush, to which he repeatedly responded that the president still has three more years to "turn around."
(Excerpt) Read more at calendarlive.com ...
Would Rather cover an interview that required pre-selectecd questions?
hehehe
Dan's "interview" of Saddam was pre-approved, I'm sure.
Not that it had to be, since they both blame Bush.
Libs have no problem censoring others, or being censored, when it's to their benefit.
Can anybody recall Hillary's last open press conference?
Exactly, Dan has no problem kissing up to liberals of any kind, but he will lie and fight to completely destroy any conservative.
Her what?
LoL!
What the media needs is truth in broadcasting and to leave the political bias and twisting of the truth out of the picture.
You, Dan have shown to be the epitome of media bias and have no basis to show yourself to be the spokesperson for the directive of the MSM after your proved lack of media sense in the recent past.
Rather thinks MSM is part of the government and that his ouster was an illegitimate political act.
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"Some bloggers have found blogging to be "a good way to further a particular political agenda.....but I've found that cranking out fake documents is much more effective......and don't forget what the slickmeister taught us......if caught...deny..deny...deny.
Below is forged CBS document overlayed by Microsoft Word in default mode......courtesy Little Green Footballs..
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Dan-o, Who's your daddy?
!!!!!!!!Rollin' on the floor, Gaspin' for Breath!!!!!
You da Man!
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