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Rather: 'The Public is Not Well-Served by Political Coverage Today' (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)
Poynter Online ^ | September 2, 2010 | Mallary Jean Tenore

Posted on 09/02/2010 5:26:35 AM PDT by abb

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1 posted on 09/02/2010 5:26:42 AM PDT by abb
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To: 04-Bravo; aimhigh; andyandval; Arizona Carolyn; Bahbah; bert; bilhosty; Caipirabob; carmenbmw; ...

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2 posted on 09/02/2010 5:27:37 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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'"The public is not well-served by political coverage as it is today," said Rather ... who, after all, ought to know.
3 posted on 09/02/2010 5:28:43 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("If youÂ’re not fiscally AND socially conservative, youÂ’re not conservative!" - Jim Robinson, 9-1-1)
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Rather: 'If we'd had spell check back then I'd still be in the newspaper business'

Not quite, Dan. How 'bout TRUTH checker?

4 posted on 09/02/2010 5:30:09 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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Rather: 'If we'd had spell check back then I'd still be in the newspaper business'

Not quite, Dan. How 'bout TRUTH checker?

5 posted on 09/02/2010 5:30:17 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: abb

The pot calling the kettle.........?


6 posted on 09/02/2010 5:30:52 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: abb

He’s STILL angry about being exposed as the liar he is, and trying to smear ex-POTUS Bush’s Nat’l Guard record.

What a pathetic loser. Dan, get a hobby. Try knitting perhaps.


7 posted on 09/02/2010 5:31:14 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (We don't have a leader in the Oval Office, we have a odreader in the Oval Office.)
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-- He's said before that he wishes President Barack Obama would form a commission to help save journalism jobs and establish new business models--

--sure, needs a czar of a commission that could be in charge of "false, but accurate" news---

8 posted on 09/02/2010 5:31:18 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
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He should go back to his Dacha and dissappear.


9 posted on 09/02/2010 5:31:55 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (m)
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To: abb

Old fossil still yearns to be a gatekeeper.

Wants all those bloggers to get off of “his” news lawn.

Of course, its really a public news park, and he really needs to lay off the sauce, take a bath, and wash his clothes.


10 posted on 09/02/2010 5:34:12 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: abb

http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=189974
Rather: ‘If we’d had spell check back then I’d still be in the newspaper business’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/01/AR2010090105987.html
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http://thenextweb.com/media/2010/09/01/tbd-director-not-satisfied-with-how-washington-post-used-its-video-feed-during-discovery-hostage-standoff/
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http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/generalities/_nielsen_29_million_watched_obama_iraq_address_172506.asp
Nielsen: 29 Million Watched Obama Iraq Address

Viewership was down -9% compared to his last address in June about the Gulf oil spill, and down 28% from his December 2009 address on his strategy for Afghanistan.


11 posted on 09/02/2010 5:34:38 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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Poor Dan, he just can’t deal with his irrelevance nor with the fact that his entire career was a lie. He should take up golf or do some charity work.


12 posted on 09/02/2010 5:36:49 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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Old fossil still yearns to be a gatekeeper.

They all do, MrEdd. That galls them most of all. More than the layoffs, the pay cuts and the newspaper closings. Their loss of power and prestige has them unhinged.

13 posted on 09/02/2010 5:37:42 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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"he'd rather be doing what he likes best -- being out in the field reporting."

More like out standing in a field reading cue cards in front of a camera to shaft someone he doesn't like.

14 posted on 09/02/2010 5:39:48 AM PDT by Paladin2
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All of the msm laments the fact that citizens now have other sources to research at the speed of light and that the public will no longer swallow their LIES hook, line and sinker.


15 posted on 09/02/2010 5:41:50 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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I have in my ‘to read’ pile of books “The Camera Never Blinks” and “The Camera Never Blinks Twice.” The books he wrote back when it mattered what he said or wrote...


16 posted on 09/02/2010 5:41:56 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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No one has yet to prove the authenticity of the documents.

But someone did prove they weren't authentic.

17 posted on 09/02/2010 5:44:58 AM PDT by DejaJude
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Not forgery! FABRICATION!!

Forgery implies the existence of an original document, signature etc.

Fabrication-making something up that has no basis in fact.

Rather and his ilk detest Blog sites-they can be challenged and questioned almost immediately after their stories and they don’t like that.


18 posted on 09/02/2010 5:45:56 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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Good lord, abb. Where to start?

First he talks about media blindly buying Bush’s WMD narrative, then says he still believes the Killian hoax narrative, despite hard evidence.

While discussing “highly partisan, political and ideological purposes,” he suggests government intervention in media.

“The old business model for news is crumbling, he said, and the Internet has not yet risen in its place. He’s said before that he wishes President Barack Obama would form a commission to help save journalism jobs and establish new business models.”

Typical lib, accuse others of what they are doing themselves.


19 posted on 09/02/2010 5:47:11 AM PDT by maggief
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I have seen Rather’s investigative reporting and it leaves a lot to be desired. Who cares what this already exposed as a liar thinks.

His credibility is NILL.


20 posted on 09/02/2010 5:47:35 AM PDT by Venturer
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