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  • Network TV Bigwigs Rail Against the Blogosphere (Brokejaw says blogs on 'Political Jihad')

    10/05/2004 3:06:45 PM PDT · by gopwinsin04 · 49 replies · 1,329+ views
    ZD Net ^ | 10/4/04 | Margie Reardon
    At a panel discussion sponored by the New Yorker Magazine on Saturday in New York, NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw lashed out at Internet bloggers in defense of CBS's Dan Rather according to reports from the Associated Press and Reuters.Brokaw compared the bloggers attacks on Dan Rathers '60 Minutes II' reportage about President Bush's National Guard service to a 'political jihad.''What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the internet, a kind of political jihad,' Brokaw said during a panel discussion where he appeared with Dan Rather and Peter Jennings.'It is certainly an attempt to demonize CBS...
  • “Buckhead” vs. Dan Rather: Internet David Slays Media Goliath

    09/26/2004 9:30:59 AM PDT · by mrustow · 93 replies · 2,948+ views
    Men's News Daily ^ | 26 September 2004 | Nicholas Stix
    Say good night, Dan. Dan Rather's journalism career is surely over. When he got snookered by the forged memos peddled by longtime Bush enemy Bill Burkett, a retired Texas Army National Guard lieutenant colonel, and the fraud was exposed by a 'lousy Internet site,' instead of Rather re-investigating the story, he stonewalled, took the offensive, engaged in a "modified, limited hangout" (the September 21 New York Post) and attacked his critics. Once he admitted that something wasn't quite right about the "documents," he even tried to take credit for determining that a hoax had taken place. Rather acted less like...