Comments on: Dan Rather will always be Dan Rather

By: Hermie

Hermie — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:03:33 +0000

Roger, the problem wasn’t that he was nationally humiliated and lost his job…CBS backed him up and whitewashed the fake documents fiasco.

Although we know better, he was allowed to leave without being raked over the coals by his employers. He still maintains his claims that the documents were legit because CBS would not admit he blew it big time due to his rabid anti-Bush bias. (CBS’ culture is anti-GOP, Anti-Bush, so Rather’s fake documents were considered a legitimate means of trying to sway the electorate.)

Being allowed to leave ‘with dignity’ is not always the right thing to do, especially when the person who has done wrong does not repent, and his enablers will not admit there was wrongdoing.

By: jedrury

jedrury — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:52:11 +0000

Roger and NavyOne:

You are right. Now, which network will be the first to dump the evening news.

The Washpo was recently lamenting the crash of local prime time news. If it bleeds, it leads journalism is dead. Advertisers fleeing.

Check out what Tony Blair said yesterday about the new “impact journalism” in Britain which has supplanted impact for truth. The weeping and crying from the Independent and Guardian were heard all over the net.

Remarkable what one smart, truthful, gutsy pol with a world cred can do as he walks off the stage. Instead of a Dick Nixon exit, he invents his own finale and leaves the wounded press lords reeling.

By: navyone

navyone — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:19:28 +0000

Rather, Brokaw, Williams, Cronkite, Jennings, Rooney, Gibson et al, all painful to watch. I don’t need a guy with a newsy voice telling me how to view the world. That is why I go to blogs, many of them, in several languages. My generation will bury the network news, and the newspaper and the news magazine for that matter. It is not a revolution, that word is overused. Simply, they had a corner on the information market. Not anymore.

By: Steven Mitchell

Steven Mitchell — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:29:03 +0000

Roger, I want to congratulate you on being the first person to find a productive use of Paris Hilton, whom previously I have studiously and carefully ignored.

By: Lem

Lem — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:04:22 +0000

They tried to make me go to rehab, I said No, No, No.

Dan Rather

By: MikeD

MikeD — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:49:28 +0000

“Paris Hilton is more interesting – and more newsworthy.”

Brighter too.

By: scott

scott — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:29:50 +0000

Yes,she start signing off “Courage” if she wants to sound smart.
Poor “Kenneth” still doesn’t have the frequency!