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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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Nope he just counts on a deluded public not to remember.
Exactly what I thought.
Gee Dan, remember what got you fired from See-BS?
Outright fraudulent fake news, exposed right here on FR.
Guess he thinks we all forgot.
[Said the guy who made up a whopper. And he got caught.]
Also the same guy who said before the Florida hurricane, maybe even Houston, that “a Category 4 hurricane is about to strike the Trump administration”.
Fake news much, Dan Rather? Of course you do. Constantly.
The one that really stands out for me is when Israel took out Yassin. It was all in caps on a side bar I seem to recall.
Then they took out Rantissi.
Those were banner days.
[ 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? ]
I’m sure many liberals with heads nodding towards Dan don’t understand what you just typed. Some are no doubt angry. They cannot comprehend how you could doubt Dan Rather.
Liberals don;t think, they emote. If they feel something is true, then it must be true.
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But YOU need to shut up and clean toilets...bitch.
Surprise! Now Dan Rather Publishes 'Fake News' About Himself
Dan Rather, who famously quit his post as the anchor for “CBS Evening News” in 2004 after airing “fake news” about President George W. Bush, has been caught up in another episode.
This time it’s about his 2012 book, “Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News,” which features an image of Rather as a Marine.
Dan Rather as a "Marine" image appears several places online, credited with being provided by Dan Rather
Rather apparently supplied the image to the publisher, which shows him in Marine dress blues and the famous white saucer cap, with the caption, “As a young Marine.”
Only he wasn’t.
He washed out of boot camp while trying to become a Marine.
The story is explained in a document posted online by the blog MilitaryCorruption.com.
In the book, the blog explains, “the then 81-year-old liberal icon and disgraced former CBS anchorman didn’t say word one about the Corps in the text, but shockingly in the photos section, there was a headshot of a smiling, young Dan wearing Marine dress blues, including the famed white saucer cap, with the caption, ‘As a young Marine.’
Savannah Guthrie confuses Matt Lauer with her husband. Then the TODAY anchors lose it.
http://ew.com/tv/2017/02/28/savannah-guthrie-matt-lauer-husband/
>>>>>>“On my maternity leave, when I was getting up and feeding every couple of hours, Matt would be,” said Guthrie, catching her mistake. “Where is my Freud textbook?”
The gaffe cracked up her fellow panelists, with Sheinelle Jones joking, “Breaking news!” before asking, “Anything you want to talk about?”<<<<<<<
We think that because we THINK, and people like Dan don’t like that. We’re supposed to lock our lips around their septic tank discharge pipe known as the MSM.
Water is wet.
Fire is hot.
The media shovels bs.
“Fake but accurate” Rather laments that Americans think the media ‘make up stories” ... I’m shocked, yes, shocked to the core!!!!!!!!
"The documents are authentic."
Gee, Dan, I wonder why people think the media just makes up stories?
These idiots are whining about not being taken seriously, and they can't even get a simple sentence right. In 2004, he was then-President Bush, not candidate Bush.
And they wonder why we call it FAKE News.
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