Posted on 12/03/2001 1:51:06 PM PST by RMeek
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Monday Dec. 3, 2001; 5:13 p.m. EST Goldberg: CBS Brass Ordered Me to Go Easy on Dan Rather In 1993, when longtime CBS News journalist Bernard Goldberg proposed an investigative report on media bias featuring interviews with top network news stars, CBS brass approved the project, but ordered Goldberg to go easy on Dan Rather. In his first interview since word of his explosive new book, "Bias: A Veteran CBS Reporter's Account of How the Media Distorts the News" leaked out Friday, Goldberg told WABC Radio's Sean Hannity about an incident where he suggested the media bias report to CBS News boss Andrew Heyward for the new show Heyward was then producing, "Eye to Eye with Connie Chung." "He looked at me like I must be on drugs," Goldberg said. But after some cajoling Heyward agreed to take the idea to the then-president of the news division. "He came back and said, 'The president of the news division says you can do it. But you can't ask Dan any tough questions.' "I thought he was kidding," Goldberg said. "I mean, could you imagine if I said, I want to do a piece on - I want to interview Newt Gingrich, but don't ask him any tough questions?" When told he couldn't ask Rather what he wanted, Goldberg decided to drop the media bias report altogether. The veteran reporter had words of praise for Rather, but said he also shared character flaws that bedeviled Rather's old nemesis, Richard Nixon. "Dan is a great guy a lot of the time," he told Hannity. "He's funny, he's charming, he's intelligent, he's all the things you want a guy to be." But Rather could also be ruthless and unforgiving, Goldberg said. "When Dan sneezes, (Rather's staff) all catch cold. When Dan says jump, they all say, 'How high?'.....Any kind of serious disagreement, especially about liberal bias, was seen as treason," he added. The CBS veteran told Hannity about a network vice president who once warned, "Just like Nixon, if you cross Dan once - if he perceives you as an enemy for a second - you're an enemy for life." "The irony," said Goldberg, "is (that) Dan Rather, the great journalist who exposed Nixon for what he was, sort of became Nixon." Order Bernard Goldberg's book "Bias" at an unbeatable price at NewsMax.com's bookstore.
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Well, soak it up, FReepers, because they were guilty and lying, and we were right. Now everybody sees them with their pants around their knees.
The importance is overwhelming because now they will have "legitimate" preesure to address it AND fix it.
Never thought I'd see the day..........
I'm sure you're right, metaphorically. Undoubtedly, at an early age, Dan recognized himself as a snooty, effete, elite, girly-man trapped in a Texan's body. I could be wrong; he may have developed the "snooty" at a later age.
"Keeping your energy up is not hard in a situation like this, but I did rely on something I call 'zoom juice'.... Frankly, I don't know what's in the damn stuff. It gives you a burst of energy, you can gulp it down quickly, and it's liquid, so you're not chewing when you come back on the air."
- Dan Rather, explaining how a "high-protein smoothie" helped him cope with the pressure of reporting on September 11, quoted in the New York Post
Rush's comment: Next time, try truth serum.
Sure, it fits. He's got the kind of personallity you get when you're beat up several times a day for being a sissa-boyh.
Are you trying to tell us that there are no PissAnts in Texas? How about LBJ, Molly Ivins, Jim Hightower, Anne Richards, Lord Bentsen, and I could go on and on? Rather fits right in with this bunch.
Now I dream that he is on the air spouting his liberal bias and a group of Freepers come in, grab him by the arms and haul him out of the studio while he mutters into the microphone!
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