Rather: Public Trust In Media Threatened (“I’m not an icon. I can be arrogant and conceited.”)

Harvard Crimson ^ | Friday, March 10, 2006 | CLAIRE M. GUEHENNO

[OldFriend]

Rather comes out as a madman bent on the destruction of the President in Sammon's book, Strategery.

[kittymyrib]

Now this is a hard-hitting piece that the future LibCom "journalists" can be proud of! Wonder if any conservative has ever been invited to speak to this Lefty group, and what the coverage of that event would be. This is, in reality, a parody of Harvard itself. In this bastion of tolerance, there is no tolerance of an opposing viewpoint.

[ncountylee]

he “tried to stand [his] ground.”

Hey Rather...your job is to read the news not be a self important inventor of agenda driven "stories."

[reagan_fanatic]

The way this man sucked up to dictators and despots was sickening and disgusting. He should have long ago dropped any pretense of objectivity and fairness and called himself what he really was - a partisan democrat who used his position of power to influence national politics and social policy.

[MarineBrat]

[Chances Are]

While Rather denied having “sassed” any president...

What about that teté â teté with Bush I some years ago, that he later proclaimed to be "good old fashioned advocacy journalism"?

CA....

[Windsong]

“Ratings no longer are king. Demographics are,” Rather said

Sharp as an orange.

[Enchante]

"...Rather went on to address some of the tougher problems facing the media today"

.... so of course the rigorous Harvard scholars pressed him forcefully for a full accounting of his role in the infamous "Rathergate" foisting of blatant forgeries on the American public just weeks before a national election. The very thorough and objective Harvard scholars would not let Rather depart without an exhaustive examination of his central role in one of the worst journalistic frauds in US history.....

Oh, wait, I guess we didn't see that in this article, how could the reporter have missed the great truth-seeking Harvard scholars, who always uphold that university's mottos of "VERITAS"?????? Surely it's not because the Harvard scholars did not actually challenge Dan Blather to give a truthful accounting of his fraud????

[AwesomePossum]

Rather was invited to speak by Dotty Lynch, an IOP fellow traveler and political editor at CBS News.

[ncountylee]

Be nice if the news readers would have their IQ's tested with the results released.