Posted on 01/13/2005 6:35:26 PM PST by wagglebee
Former CBS News president Van Gordon Sauter said Thursday that Dan Rather's liberal bias has so permeated the "CBS Evening News" that even he can't stand to watch anymore.
"I stopped watching it some time ago," the ex-network news boss writes in today's Los Angeles Times. "The unremitting liberal orientation finally became too much for me."
Sauter, who ran the Tiffany network's news division in the early 1980s, said he still checks in from time-to time, but "less and less frequently." Instead, "I increasingly drift to NBC News and Fox and MSNBC," he said.
The former news exec said this week's firings of four CBS employees in response to the Rathergate scandal exposed the real problem for network news:
"A large swath of the society doesn't trust the news media," he contended. "And for many, it's even stronger than that: They abhor the media and perceive it as an escalating threat to the society."
If the erosion of public trust isn't stopped, warns Sauter, viewers will look elsewhere for their news product.
"Those readers and viewers most comfortable in the center will try to find something in the center," he argues.
But that could lead to "a lot of scrupulously impartial . . . news sources, managed by research-driven executives who find it a good marketing approach."
Ultimately, says Sauter, "banality will trump opinion."
When I start seeing some truth come out in such matters as the Kennedy assassination, the Foster death, the crash of TWA 800, the Waco holocaust, or the Oklahoma City bombing, Juanita Broddrick, to cite just a few examples, I'll turn the TV on and watch FoxNews.
Clearly the hands now working the media puppets are even far more monolithic, more powerful, and more diabolical than even 40-50 years ago. It's all a con job.... but it's the best con job.
You and I will find most of the truth at places like this, that is, if we're smart enough to sift through everything.
Mea culpa.
count me in
Any liink to the actual story--or was this a letter to the editor?
< Actually Dan Schorr used to be with CBS until he went to Cnn. Haven't seen him in a long time and he must be in his 80's now. >
Last I heard, Daniel Schorr was still muckraking for PBS. I don't listen anymore, but it seems I used to hear his pompous a$$ on Saturday mornings. That was a long time ago and even then he was getting incoherent. He should be drooling and in Depends by now.
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All GREAT points, Captain.
Only queston now for RATHER to finally answer is:
"What's the Frequency, DAN..?"
(Asked right after his affair with someone else's wife was exposed, while two men were beating him up)
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I resemble that remark. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.
Sweet. The best part: this quote will get back to cBS and Blather. Sure, they'll dismiss it but they know they are over. They have a legacy now that they did not envision. Sweet....
I checked last night and Schorr is about 88 years old, way past retirement age. Maybe he and Dan can share a room together and talk over old times, heck maybe Cronkite can join them.
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