Rather Says Odds Getting Longer for Couric (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

TV Week ^ | July 23, 2007 | Greg Baumann

[az_gila]

“Dan Rather, who last month accused broadcast networks of dumbing down and tarting up their newscasts”

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That’s rich coming from “fake but accurate” Dan....:^)

[bilhosty]

He has to understand though that it takes two cheeks to make a full ass. One cheek like him is just a half ass.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Mr. Rather said his primary challenge at HDNet is creating news content that is as good as the high-definition picture the network sends out.

“I would like to build something that lasts in terms of integrity,” Mr. Rather said.

integrity:

1. Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.
2. The state of being unimpaired; soundness.
3. The quality or condition of being whole or undivided; completeness.

Mr. Rather believes that whatever makes journalists seem important is good for the country - and that nothing else has any significance. That is why, in his opinion, journalism is "objective" by definition. And why people who are not journalists but who believe that nothing actually matters except PR, and who therefore toady to journalism unreservedly, are "liberals" and "progressives." And why those who think that reality matters are "conservatives" or "right wingers."

Since that is what he believes, "The quality or condition of being whole or undivided" would require that he say so openly.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

He’s been half-assed for years.

[Enchante]

“The tendency is to dumb it down and sleaze it up,” Mr. Rather said

Good heavens, Dan Blather, that describes your entire career as a so-called 'journalist' -- what makes you think anything has changed in the "fake but accurate" news department????

[RJL]

“I would like to build something that lasts in terms of integrity,” Mr. Rather said.

Not to worry Dan, you have, though not in the way you'd like.

Trying to influence a Presidential election with fraudulent documents and then claiming they were "fake but accurate" will be known and studied for generations to come.

[Milhous]

'We can give this time back to affiliates,'

Strange bedfellow syndrome seeing Ra^th support your premise that broadcast news will end after the '08 elections.

The television industry’s transition from standard definition to HD will eventually be seen as being as profound as its change from black-and-white to color, he said.

Radio's profound change from AM to FM failed to stave off TV's ascendancy just as TV's HD will fail to stave off Inet ascendancy.

[RipSawyer]

“I would like to build something that lasts in terms of integrity,” Mr. Rather said.
That has to be the most BS-laden statement I have ever read.

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He can do it! His buddies from Cuba and Arkansas will help!

[N. Theknow]

Mr. Rather said his primary challenge at HDNet is creating news content that is as good as the high-definition picture the network sends out.

Whenever I am skimming through the channel guide on DirecTV, I see his "Report" and click on it to see what his "topic" for the show is going to be for the evening.

2 out of 3 times he is going off on some Anti-Bush screed-a-torial on either Iraq or Katrina.

My wife and I have started calling his show "Ahab Reports."

[abb]

My wife and I have started calling his show "Ahab Reports."

Captain Ahab: "Blacksmith, I set ye a task. Take these harpoons and lances. Melt them down. Forge me new weapons that will strike deep and hold fast. But do not douse them in water; they must have a proper baptism. What say ye, all ye men? Will you give as much blood as shall be needed to temper the steel?"

[Thom Pain]

If CBS wants high ratings and a credible news show they just need to hire John Bolton as their International Desk Editor and Newt Gingrich as the National Desk Editor and start reporting news instead of me-too DNC talking points. They'd be in first place in a month.

Quite simple, really. Fill the massive void currently not being addressed by anyone on T.V.