Rather warns students of 'new' media

Bangor Daily News ^ | November 02, 2005 | Staff

[baystaterebel]

Longtime CBS Evening News anchorman Dan Rather on Tuesday called for a return to independent journalism, telling viewers to be critical of the plethora of "new" media outlets that feign objectivity while working to advance their own - or another's - agenda.

"You need to ask yourself: Is more better, and is all that calls itself news really news," Rather told the estimated 1,400 people who filled the Maine Center for the Arts near capacity for his morning speech on the University of Maine campus. "News is something people need to know which someone, somewhere, doesn't want them to know. All the rest is advertising."

[baystaterebel]

Forever in denial.

[dirtboy]

Longtime CBS Evening News anchorman Dan Rather on Tuesday called for a return to independent journalism, telling viewers to be critical of the plethora of "new" media outlets that feign objectivity while working to advance their own - or another's - agenda.

Yeah, the nerve of those new media outlets pushing an agenda. Only Gunga Dan is allowed to push an agenda.

[MNJohnnie]

anchorman Dan Rather on Tuesday called for a return to independent journalism, telling viewers to be critical of the plethora of "new" media outlets that feign objectivity while working to advance their own

The only difference between "New" and "Old" media Danny boy is the New media tells you right up front what their baises are, while you Dinasour clowns keep LYING about yours.

[pissant]

What a fetid pile of garbage this clown is.

[Dark Knight]

Dan who?

DK

[new yorker 77]

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Broadcast journalist Ted Koppel, the face of late-night newscast "Nightline" for a quarter century, will anchor the show for the last time on November 22, but ABC News has not decided who will replace him, the network said on Thursday.

Koppel, 65, becomes the latest in a string of veteran network news anchors to sign off in recent months, following Tom Brokaw of NBC, Dan Rather of CBS and Koppel's ABC News colleague, the late Peter Jennings.

Last Time a Post this.

Throoough the years. You never let me down. You bwa ahhh ahhh!!.

[RetiredArmy]

Well, Dan finally TOLD THE TRUTH. That they are TRYING TO ADVANCE THEIR OWN AGENDA. He certainly did for 30 puss years! Yes, I said puss, not plus. He is puss from an ozing sore.

[coloradan]

telling viewers to be critical of the plethora of "new" media outlets that feign objectivity while working to advance their own - or another's - agenda. "You need to ask yourself: Is more better, and is all that calls itself news really news,"

Look in the mirror, Rather.

[Between the Lines]

telling viewers to be critical of the plethora of "new" media outlets that feign objectivity while working to advance their own - or another's - agenda.

That means CBS is new media?

"News is something people need to know which someone, somewhere, doesn't want them to know. All the rest is advertising."

Oh, CBS is advertising.

[airborne]

"You need to ask yourself: Is more better, and is all that calls itself news really news,"

Not when it's made up by lying, scumbags like you, Dan!

[halosfan2002]

Somebody call a Waaambulance.

[NewMediaFan]

Did he happen to warn students of the danger of using forged documents in news reporting?

[BenLurkin]

""News is something people need to know which someone, somewhere, doesn't want them to know."

Huh?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

You just nailed it.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Rather is SUCH a shabby old WHORE!!

He is so very yesterday; doesn't get yet.

[samtheman]

It's hard enough trying to keep the fonts straight on forged documents without all those friggin' new media types messing up a well rehearsed story!

[TomGuy]

...Dan Rather on Tuesday called for a return to independent journalism, telling viewers to be critical of the plethora of "new" media outlets that feign objectivity while working to advance their own - or another's - agenda.




Dan should know. He reeked of agenda when he was on the CBS Evening News.

[SF Republican]

called for a return to independent journalism Great idea Dan, you first.

[SwinneySwitch]

Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side
The summer's gone, and all the flowers are dying
'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide.

[TomGuy]

The irony is, most of them left within months of each other.

[And their replacements aren't winning much in the way of high praise and accolades, either.]