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Emotional Rather blasts 'new journalism order'
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| September 19, 2005
| By Paul J. Gough, Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
Posted on 09/19/2005 8:36:17 PM PDT by aculeus
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To: mercy
Were supposed to take seriously an institution that puts forth a disgraced charlatan ... caught red handed forging documents in a presidential run-up ... as an honored elder spokesman?When did we start talking about the Democrat Party and Joe Biden?
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posted on
09/19/2005 9:20:21 PM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Mary Landrieu, just another "New Orleans Lady")
To: frankjr
Say....isn't that picture taken from the Dallas Book Depository?
I knew Oswald wasn't in it alone.
102
posted on
09/19/2005 9:20:23 PM PDT
by
Auntie Dem
(Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
To: aculeus
He said this pressure -- along with the "dumbed-down, tarted-up" coverage, the advent of 24-hour cable competition and the chase for ratings and demographics -- has taken its toll on the news business. "All of this creates a bigger atmosphere of fear in newsrooms," Rather said. In the 70's, Doonesbury used to make fun of Rather as being the "gossip" monger on CBS. A long series of cartoons showed him being on a panel discussion on celebrity jounalism with Rona Barrett, and being mocked as the airhead he is. Funny how Trudeau never continued on this subject.
While I am on this rant, maybe the reason newsrooms can't afford the "hard hitting journalism" they supposedly used to offer might be the $10 million a year they pay to idiots like Rather, Couric, Jennings or Brokaw.
103
posted on
09/19/2005 9:21:36 PM PDT
by
sharkhawk
(Play me a dirge matey)
To: aculeus
What kind of tacky people would give Dan Rather an award after what he did?
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posted on
09/19/2005 9:21:54 PM PDT
by
McGavin999
(We're a First World Country with a Third World Press (Except for Hume & Garrett ))
To: sharkhawk
I truly hope Dan Rather has nightmares where he is running from his anchor chair, trying to shred the NG memoes, while a group of Freepers led by Buckhead, TankerKC and Jim Robinson chase him. Somewhere in the article, Rather was proud of how the media was "willing to speak truth to power" during Katrina. The Freepers who exposed Dan's fraudulence should be proud that they spoke truth to the old media's power.
To: aculeus
Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather said Monday that there is a climate of fear running through newsrooms stronger than he has ever seen in his more than four-decade career. Good, we are making a difference! I hope they can't sleep at night.
No go back under the rock that you retired to, Dan!
To: aculeus
Rather and his ilk have been lying, sensationalizing, twisting the truth, and generally misleading the public for four decades to advance their socialist agenda. Thank God for the information highway.
To: Tiger Smack
"who gives a crap what that old, bitter fool has to say?"Precisely!
This isn't actually posted as "news" is it? :-)
To: bray
I understood your humor perfectly and thanks.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Sometimes I DO dislike simple text communication. It's "sufficient", but difficult/impossible to impart vocal inflection and facial expressions. :-)
Ah well...I'm a little thick sometimes anyway. I'm outta here for the evening...g'night! :-)
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posted on
09/19/2005 9:25:29 PM PDT
by
hiredhand
(My kitty disappeared. NOT the rifle!)
To: aculeus
What Dan's upset about is the biased left thats dominated the MSM loss of power.
Before the internet became a popular source for news and outlets like fox news came around, the left completely dominated the news. The far-left would argue with the moderate left and that was their idea of biased news reporting.
What Dan is crying about is all about loss of power.
To: aculeus
"Addressing the Fordham University School of Law in Manhattan, occasionally forcing back tears, he said that in the intervening years, politicians "of every persuasion" had gotten better at applying pressure on the conglomerates that own the broadcast networks. He called it a "new journalism order." He said this pressure -- along with the "dumbed-down, tarted-up" coverage, the advent of 24-hour cable competition and the chase for ratings and demographics -- has taken its toll on the news business. "All of this creates a bigger atmosphere of fear in newsrooms," Rather said." Who is rather trying to kid..the political pressures on the conglomerates is self imposed it always has been.. starting with Rather himself... where was this "fear" during the Clin ton Years? He is just bitter that the world did not turn out they way he thought it should. Unfortunately now that acid dan is not tied to a Network anymore he is free to sprout is inane rhetoric to anyone who will listen to him.
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posted on
09/19/2005 9:25:55 PM PDT
by
Americanwolf
(U.S. Navy Veteran.....93-97 Clinton I want my trip to Australia! I had to go to China you pervert!)
To: rolling_stone
"Who else is a huge AH and a complete moron and gets paid so well for their fictional reporting? That's Incredible!"
Michael Moore?
To: aculeus
Nevins said that even in the documentary world, there's a certain kind of intimidation brought to bear these days, particularly from the religious right. "If you made a movie about (evolutionary biologist Charles) Darwin now, it would be revolutionary," Nevins said. "If we did a documentary on Darwin, I'd get a thousand hate e-mails."
Yeah, the documentarians are sure living in fear. OMG, I might get some hate mail. I would love to see a documentary about communist symphatizers in Hollywood in the 30's and 40's who supported the Ribbentrop/Molotov treaty. Let's see if that would win any awards.
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posted on
09/19/2005 9:27:09 PM PDT
by
sharkhawk
(Play me a dirge matey)
To: aculeus; potlatch; devolve; PhilDragoo; Happy2BMe
"They were willing to speak truth to power," Rather said of the coverage.Code words for "I am a marxist."
To: aculeus
Addressing the Fordham University School of Law in Manhattan, occasionally forcing back tears... Just like the farewell TV special that Dan had to host himself because his bosses wouldn't be seen in the same area code as Dan and they couldn't make anybody else show up. Dan thinks he's a martyr, most of America knows he's a friggin' idiot.
To: Boazo
Standing in for Dan tonight... It's Bill Burkett! The unimpeachable source himself!
Or at least he's close enough to being Bill Burkett to meet CBS's standards.
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posted on
09/19/2005 9:28:57 PM PDT
by
TChad
To: Billthedrill
I haven't left yet........
Thanks for the good wishes - I really dread the PT sessions.
NOW - I am outta here!!!
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posted on
09/19/2005 9:30:16 PM PDT
by
Gabz
((Chincoteague, VA) Tryin' to Reason with Hurricane season)
To: Williams
HAHAHA I got a great kick out of this Nevins being responsible for "G-String Divas" and "Taxicab Confessions". Both are just straight out leering soft porn junk. Yep! Dan Rather spent 40 years whoring himself for CBS. He fits right in with Nevins other pay-television ventures.
To: aculeus
"They were willing to speak truth to power," Rather said of the coverage.No, they were spinning propaganda. But the power of the truth will take them down, just like it took you down, you whiny socialist.
P.S. Who kissed better, Saddam or Fidel?
To: dfwgator
Translation: We can't get away with lying anymore as much (right now).
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posted on
09/19/2005 9:35:03 PM PDT
by
weegee
(The lesson from New Orleans? Smart Growth kills. You can't evacuate dense populations easily.)
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