The New CBS EVENING NEWS ANCHOR
Posted on 09/13/2004 12:02:09 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
CBS and Dan Rather particularly, have disgraced themselves.
As the old media crumbles around itself, the new media steps up to fill the void.
It was the Internet that broke the Dan Rather story, and talk radio that gave it fight.
I do not think the Dan Rather's of yesterdays news will be missed.
After all, people want the facts, not an idealogical reinvention of them.
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The New CBS EVENING NEWS ANCHOR
If you watch Rather, Jennings, etc., all you see are adds for incontinence, drugs for libido, Depends, etc. Most people who watch the news in this rapidly declining format are OLD!! I'm 57, and I get my news on the Internet. I think most Republicans do as well. My mom is 83, and she watches Rather, because that's all she knows. When she and her generation is gone, the Rather's' of the world will be as well.
That is good.
Ya know, this is becoming a fascinating story. Although this is far from a seminal idea (it has been expressed by many others a lot sharper/brighter than I), what makes this story so interesting is less the facts of it than the environment.
This story began as a broadcast MSM smear against a sitting president during a time of war. It then moved into the cyber world of the blogsphere that gave it increasingly stronger and more solid legs as bloggers presented varied and unambiguous facts to support the claim that the memos had been forged. As the claims of forgeries increased and became more substantiated, the story was FORCED back into the MSM. Slowly, but surely, because of the power of the Internet, the MSM is being forced to cover this story and the questions raised about the authenticity of the memos.
Now, ironically enough, the MSM is having to choose sides - either the side of the blogosphere or the side of CBS/Rather. Interestingly, the MSM is trying to appear balanced by publishing the questions about the memos' authenticity, which actually places more pressure on Rather/CBS to come clean.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen!
Don't count on it, MSM is covering their ass, and refuse to publish the undesputable facts in their entirety.
Plus, they have completely skipped the Swift veteran rally,
and are pushing the DNC Bush bash stories, which are based on these very same fake docs.
We are honored to have such brilliant (!) people as FReepers! Loved your ditty. It's even better w/the music.
You generalized too much from my post. With respect to Forgerygate, the MSM are having to walk a very tight line and appear to be more balanced rather (no pun intended) than swallow SeeBS' kool-aid. That doesn't mean that I think they are becoming more balanced and less liberal. Nothing could be further from the truth.
What I marvel at is how the power of the Internet and the blogosphere has increasingly forced to MSM to address this issue. That doesn't make them good guys; that demonstrates that the strength and power of the Internet has risen to rival and offset the power of the MSM to control the news. That's as big a story (to me) as the faked memos and Rather/SeeBS' stonewalling.
After reading it, can ANYONE seriously doubt that the CBS memos are not only forgeries, but cheap forgeries at that?
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