Does great reporting matter if nobody sees it? (Dan Rather - Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

Poynter Online ^ | March | Jim Rendon

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That’s what Jim Rendon asks in his piece about Dan Rather and his work on HDNet. Owner Mark Cuban has made little effort to extend Rather’s reach, he writes. New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter hasn’t written about Rather’s show since it first launched because HDNet has never “flagged one of his big stories for me effectively.”

See here the article in Mother Jones magazine.

http://motherjones.com/media/2011/02/dan-rather-reports-mark-cuban-hd-net?page=1

Dan Rather: Inside Mark Cuban's Gilded Cage

At 79, the former CBS anchorman is still kicking ass and winning Emmys. But with his exposés sandwiched between pro wrestling and Girls Gone Wild, is anybody watching?

[ken5050]

winnah!!!

[catnipman]

“But the company [NYT] has struggled to make enough money from its digital operations to stem the decline in print advertising ...”

Well, naturally, anyone with a lick of sense knows that it will be impossible to replace print advertising revenues with digital revenues for any print media operation for a plethora of reasons, but mostly because the Internet broke the print media’s publication monopolies, with subscription revenues approaching zero, as well as bringing down the revenue per ad from thousands of dollars to tiny fractions of cents, and in one important case, namely Craigslist, ads are outright free.

The monopoly print media dinosaurs are doomed, and that’s a good thing. A very good thing. Because most have simply become propaganda organs for the Socialist Democrats and the neo-Marxist “progressives”.

[jim_trent]

> Two Rather Half-Assed Men

That adds up to a complete ass.

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http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/3/8/rich-journalism-goldsmith-crimson/
Frank Rich Discusses Modern Journalism

[Richard Kimball]

The falsification of the National Guard documents was a felony. The only reason Burkett, Mapes and Rather weren't sitting in front of a Federal grand jury is because the Bush Administration let them off the hook.

BTW, Burkett claims he burned the original documents after he faxed them. Anybody else believe that?