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Professor Dan Rather at Harvard University?
WorldNetDaily ^ | 7/9/06 | WorldNetDaily

Posted on 07/09/2006 4:09:23 PM PDT by wagglebee

Former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather, who recently left the network after heavy criticism for standing by a story based on forged documents, is being considered for a teaching position at Harvard University.

Published reports in Philadelphia and Boston indicate Rather might become a fellow at Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, which is run by Alex Jones.

"I'd love to have him come here for a semester or full year on campus," Jones told the Philadelphia Inquirer. "Dan Rather has all the credentials, as far as I'm concerned."

Jones told the Boston Herald, "I think that Dan Rather has demonstrated over a long career that he is a superb journalist and that he has more to say and more to do. ... I think that he should take this as an opportunity rather than a loss."

Rather's CBS career spanned 44 years until he broadcast and then stood by a flaw-laden report about President Bush's military service in the National Guard.

More than a year after his controversial "Memogate" report which was based on phony documents, Rather stood by the broadcast.

"I believed in the story. The facts of the story were correct," Rather told former newsman Marvin Kalb. "One supporting pillar of the story, albeit an important one, one supporting pillar was brought into question. To this day, no one has proven whether it was what it purported to be or not."

To be sure of what he was just told, Kalb responded, "I believe you just said that you think the story is accurate."

"The story is accurate," Rather reiterated.

If Rather were to take a fellowship at Harvard, he would be paid $15,000 per semester, along with living expenses.

"He'd be the elder statesman and truth-teller," Jones told the Inquirer. "He could speak about television with a very powerful voice."

The idea of Rather teaching at Harvard is getting some negative reaction.

"After Rather's fall from grace the idea of him teaching at Harvard is both laughable and yet not totally unexpected," said Don Irvine, chairman of Accuracy in Media. "It is outrageous that they would give him a platform considering how Rather's career ended but it is the politically correct nature of academia that allows this type of action to take place."

Irvine continued, "I suggest that Rather teach a course on media ethics, since he apparently has none to help students avoid his mistakes or investigative journalism and the importance of checking facts and verifying the credibility of sources. Maybe that would humble him a bit. Probably not."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: academia; cbs; danrather; harvard; highereducation; leftismoncampus; mediabias; memogate; rathergate
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To: Jameison

I take it, this isn't the Alex Jones on the radio? I've come across him on shortwave, but he's been on the Art Bell show.


21 posted on 07/09/2006 4:57:23 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Diogenesis
Harvard's new motto will be Commenticius Sed Verus: Fake But Accurate.
22 posted on 07/09/2006 4:58:58 PM PDT by Argus
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To: wagglebee
News anchors should be reporters not op-ed writers. Dan's brand of journalism has been thoroughly discredited.
23 posted on 07/09/2006 5:01:38 PM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: Pookyhead

25 posted on 07/09/2006 5:05:41 PM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: Pookyhead

"CBS News (we report, you prove it isn't true)"

Exactly.


26 posted on 07/09/2006 5:07:00 PM PDT by Jameison
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To: wagglebee
"I believed in the story. The facts of the story were correct," Rather told former newsman Marvin Kalb. "One supporting pillar of the story, albeit an important one, one supporting pillar was brought into question. To this day, no one has proven whether it was what it purported to be or not."

Well, whatever he's going to be teaching, I think we can safely assume it's not going to be Forensic Document Examination.

27 posted on 07/09/2006 5:07:01 PM PDT by RichInOC (Washington couldn't tell a lie, Bubba couldn't tell the truth, and Dan couldn't tell the difference.)
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To: wagglebee; All

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28 posted on 07/09/2006 5:09:13 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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To: wagglebee

Do you think that this POS will ever go away?


29 posted on 07/09/2006 5:09:26 PM PDT by Radix (Stop domestic violence. Beat abroad.)
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To: RJL
Yes, I believe he "has all the credentials" to teach at Harvard

Wouldn't those "credentials" be better utilized
at the NYT?

30 posted on 07/09/2006 5:10:21 PM PDT by cliff630 (cliff630 (Didn't Pilate ask Christ, "What is the Truth." Even while looking in the face of TRUTH))
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To: wagglebee
"Dan Rather has all the credentials, as far as I'm concerned."

I'm glad I didn't go to Harvard. All of my professors studied their subjects before lecturing about them.

31 posted on 07/09/2006 5:10:26 PM PDT by Triggerhippie (Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.)
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To: wagglebee

Don't be too sure. Ward Churchill might be in line for the same position.


32 posted on 07/09/2006 5:13:41 PM PDT by joonbug
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To: wagglebee
Looks like Harvard has found their Ward Churchill...
Rather = Liar, Plagiarist, Forger, anti-American, Fraud and certifiable asshole....

Look to the University Administrations for the source of all insanity in academia...

Semper Fi
33 posted on 07/09/2006 5:18:28 PM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: wagglebee

Dan rather would be perfect for Harvard. Crooked ,Liar, Liberal,yep perfect.


34 posted on 07/09/2006 5:19:28 PM PDT by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: Calvin Locke

No, but he's just as nuts. The kook you heard on Art Bell runs prisonplanet.com. His Myspace is something else.


35 posted on 07/09/2006 5:21:45 PM PDT by spudsmaki
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To: wagglebee
"He'd be the elder statesman and truth-teller," Jones told the Inquirer.

HAR!!! Yeah, people should send their kids to Harvard! hahahahahahahahahaaaaaaa

36 posted on 07/09/2006 5:22:00 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: sgtbono2002

No, Rather Blather can teach at the

Sam Houston Institute of Technology.


37 posted on 07/09/2006 5:25:11 PM PDT by elcid1970
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To: wagglebee

"Dan Rather has all the credentials, as far as I'm concerned."

If not, he knows where to get the documents made.


38 posted on 07/09/2006 5:28:45 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Radix
"Do you think that this POS will ever go away?"

Maybe he'll get caught screwing a young freshman.

Male or female.

39 posted on 07/09/2006 5:32:34 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
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To: wagglebee
Word™ up, Gunga Dan!
40 posted on 07/09/2006 5:38:06 PM PDT by Vision Thing
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