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Dan Rather Laments That Americans Think the Media ‘Make Up Stories’
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Posted on 11/07/2017 3:10:47 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Dan Rather Laments That Americans Think the Media ‘Make Up Stories’

Y: Alex Griswold November 7, 2017 5:37 pm

Former CBS journalist Dan Rather appeared on NBC "Today" on Tuesday where he lamented on the American people's lack of trust in the media.

"There’s a recent poll that said nearly half of people think the media make up stories," host Savannah Guthrie noted. "The media itself is under fire."

"What do you think the media needs to do better to enhance its own credibility?" she asked.

"We need to do a better job, we need to do our job. Our job is to bear witness, to be honest brokers of information, to be as accurate and fair as we possibly can," Rather said.

"I think most of the public understands that we’re under attack by very powerful people, including the president, for their own partisan, political, and ideological reasons," he concluded.

Rather infamously resigned as the anchor of "CBS Evening News" after going to air with a story only two months before the 2004 election claiming that then-candidate George W. Bush often went AWOL while serving in the Texas National Guard.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: awol; buckhead; fakebutaccurate; forgeddocs; forgeries; media; msm; tang; tankerkc
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To: RckyRaCoCo

LOL!

/facepam


21 posted on 11/07/2017 3:24:09 PM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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To: Sub-Driver

Next Up: Adolph Hitler Laments Americans Thinking Nazis Anti-Semitic!


22 posted on 11/07/2017 3:24:42 PM PST by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: GregoTX
Says the man that got fired for reporting a fake news story

I noticed.

23 posted on 11/07/2017 3:24:53 PM PST by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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To: Sub-Driver

.....um Dan, I guess you forgot about your faked made-up documents regarding Dubyah. You know, you were fired and driven from CBS because of your fake news.

Are you really that senile and delusional that you don’t remember what you did?


24 posted on 11/07/2017 3:25:07 PM PST by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves."a)
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To: Fiddlstix

You should troll Dan with that pic.


25 posted on 11/07/2017 3:25:12 PM PST by Salvavida (The Missouri citizen's militia sends its regards.)
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To: Sub-Driver
The King of #FakeNews wonders why people think the media makes up stories. LOL
26 posted on 11/07/2017 3:26:28 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: Sub-Driver
So do LIBTURDRats!
27 posted on 11/07/2017 3:28:33 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: Sub-Driver

Nothing in the article that shows Rather says what the headline says he said.
It was Savannah Guthrie who said it.


28 posted on 11/07/2017 3:28:57 PM PST by stylin19a (Best.Election.Ever)
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To: Sub-Driver

Probably my best day ever on FR was the day Dan Rather was busted for his counterfeit documents. The posts were flying fast and furious as one fact after another came out.


29 posted on 11/07/2017 3:29:21 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Captain Peter Blood
"Rather is the Grandfather of Fake News, Pot Calling Kettle Black methinks."

No, the grandfather would be Walter Cronkite. Rather would be the father. And the whole swarm of lying rodents who call themselves "journalists" would be his offspring.

30 posted on 11/07/2017 3:29:46 PM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: Sub-Driver
Post 47 from Buckhead.

Regardless of what the Bushes have shown themselves to be, it was a great moment in history.

31 posted on 11/07/2017 3:29:48 PM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for our country and President Trump)
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To: TigersEye

Dan Rather, inventor of “False but Accurate” reporting


32 posted on 11/07/2017 3:30:01 PM PST by Fred911 (YOU GET WHAT YOU ACCEPT)
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To: Sub-Driver
Dan Rather Laments That Americans Think the Media ‘Make Up Stories'


33 posted on 11/07/2017 3:30:09 PM PST by DoodleBob
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To: Sub-Driver

The irony is thick.


34 posted on 11/07/2017 3:30:27 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Dan was also involved in a fake secret prisons story where the “prison commandant” was reporting not to Uncle Sam but to Dan Rather...but Dan managed to escape criticism on that, though the “commandant” got arrested by the Afghan government.


35 posted on 11/07/2017 3:31:02 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Sub-Driver

Fake but accurate?


36 posted on 11/07/2017 3:31:43 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: Sub-Driver

What a Maroon.


37 posted on 11/07/2017 3:33:36 PM PST by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Our job is to bear witness, to be honest brokers of information, to be as accurate and fair as we possibly can," Rather said.

This is a joke, right?

38 posted on 11/07/2017 3:34:43 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: stylin19a

Agree. Nothing in text or video matches the title.


39 posted on 11/07/2017 3:35:06 PM PST by nicepaco
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To: Sub-Driver

From one of the well known fabricators-in-chief.


40 posted on 11/07/2017 3:37:55 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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