To the RESCUE!!!! Excelsior!
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Posted on 07/29/2009 9:18:12 PM PDT by DaveTesla
Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather called on President Barack Obama to form a White House commission to help save the press Tuesday night in an impassioned speech at the Aspen Institute.
“I personally encourage the president to establish a White House commission on public media,” the legendary newsman said.
Such a commission on media reform, Rather said, ought to make recommendations on saving journalism jobs and creating new business models to keep news organizations alive.
At stake, he argued, is the very survival of American democracy.
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I was on that thread that night!
I have the perfect solution to “saving” the press.
Stop your bias. Then you won’t need any government agency or program to save you. You’ll have more viewers, listeners and readers than you can count.
To the RESCUE!!!! Excelsior!
So Since Dan Rather was Obama’s puppet throughout the campaign, now he wants Obama to scratch his back. Hey Dan, sucker, Obama was only using you you big dummy
They are already saving a ton of money on reporting by just printing O’s news releases, and following him around like some kind of weird reality series.
All they have to do is channel the O, so their costs are way way down.
Now if they can just find an audience who won’t just channel surf right past them. Oh, hey, they are making ceramic door-knobs on DIY network, gotta go...
Yeah, the only 'media reform' we need is to get rid of all the 'STATE MEDIA' propagandists now infesting the newsrooms and editorial boards in this country. Committing journalistic fraud on the American public.
On September 8, 2004, Dan Rather cited “exclusive information, including documents” to justify major CBS Evening News and 60 Minutes stories alleging that George W. Bush shirked his duties when he was in the Texas Air National Guard in the 1960s and 1970s. Within a few hours of those documents being posted on CBS News’s Web site, however, typography experts voiced skepticism that the documents had actually originated with their alleged author and Bush’s former commanding officer, the late Lt. Colonel Jerry Killian. As the evidence mounted, Rather stubbornly clung to the idea that his story was bulletproof, and he derided critics as partisans and Internet rumormongers. When he “apologized” on September 20, Rather would not concede that the documents were forgeries, only that he and CBS could “no longer vouch for their authenticity.”
CBS Disregarded Experts, Challenged Laura Bush: ABC’s Brian Ross reported on the September 14 World News Tonight that “two experts hired by CBS News say the network ignored concerns they raised prior to the broadcast about the disputed National Guard records.” But over on CBS, reporter John Roberts wondered why President Bush wasn’t taking those memos seriously: “The President has yet to weigh in on new documents about his National Guard record made public last week by 60 Minutes.” Roberts also chastised First Lady Laura Bush for doubting CBS’s memos were authentic: “Laura Bush offered no evidence to back up her claim, and CBS News continues to stand by its reporting.”
Sticking By His Smear: On September 10, Dan Rather responded to charges the memos he cited as proving Bush’s dereliction were forged, telling his CBS Evening News audience that the memos were genuine and attacking any doubters as partisan rumor-mongers. “Today, on the Internet and elsewhere, some people, including many who are partisan political operatives, concentrated not on the key questions of the overall story, but on the documents that were part of the support of the story,” Rather castigated. But his lame defense ignored key challenges to the documents’ typography and content, and the doubts voiced by the widow and son of the supposed author, the late Lt. Col. Jerry Killian. Instead, Rather chose to repeat his indictment of President Bush’s National Guard service. Rather arrogantly concluded: “If any definitive evidence to the contrary of our story is found, we will report it. So far there is none.” (CyberAlert, September 11, 2004)
The press asking the government to intervene to ‘save’ it. Sometimes I wonder if we’ve learned any lessons at all from history. Deeply distressing.
Media moguls realized around 2004 that they no longer needed REPORTERS to cover National News, all they had to do was reprint MoveOn.Borg press releases verbatim.
CBS 60 minutes doesn’t even produce most of their own segments, and haven’t for almost two decades. They get provided to them by “issues” groups, then the talking head does a voice over.
Why have, and pay for, politcal or National Reporters anymore, when you can just get the same news copying it from an enterprising blogger, or a taxpayer-funded liberal group?
Courage, Dan, courage. I’m sure Obutthead will appoint a news czar any day now.
“Now that the MSM no longer controls the news their power and propaganda is dying.”
REALLY???
Were you on THIS planet during the last election? When even the ENTERTAINMENT SHOWS were doing free 15 minute infomercials for Obama?
When Evening network shows were running “Change!” memes edited in to them?
2008 will go down as the most propagandic election in HUMAN HISTORY, surpassing even Hitler’s 1933 election.
Wow, Mr. Rather, you have just defined chutzpah!
Funny, I don't see anyone in the MSM doing "journalism" anymore - it all smells like socialist/fascist propaganda to me. I don't think there are any journalism jobs left to be saved.
As for creating new business models - what would he have? A media even more in bed with the socialists now running the Country? The media had a business model that worked: report the facts, keep the opinions and spin on the op-ed page. That didn't fit with their socialist agenda and they began editorializing and spinning all the "news" stories. People are fed up and no longer interested in being lied to, particularly when the lies are so transparent and insulting to the intelligence of the reader.
As for keeping news organizations alive I think that is a mistake. The best way to resurrect true journalism is to completely kill off the cancerous propaganda machines we have now.
“News” organizations began to die when they became “Views” organizations, and practiced opinionism instead of journalism.
I get opinions all day long. I want facts when I get home in the evening.
They don’t realize that the information is in fact being profvided, but they are not the ones doing it.
The thirst for knowledge will find a way, even if it is not the old way. Dan Rather should get over it and retire.
Seems to me that GE got funding from the gov’t and it IS big media. I’m sure Dan would rather a generalized bailout of media.
The idea of government funded media scares the hell out of me. When MSNBC turns on Obama while GE is still getting funding, I’ll think about changing my mind.
Will a “Truth Czar” be added to the Politburo?
New name for the White House: Kremlin West.
The papers and 3 big networks was all there was.
Yes the MSM no longer controls the news.
Now where people chose to get their news or information
from is another matter.
At least there is a choice.
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