Good evening everyone! Another historical milestone in terms of network news reporting ended today with the announcement from Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News, that the CBS news anchor is retiring and will be leaving CBS Evening News in March.
Many of us have been watching the CBS Evening News for decades. During the 5 1/2 years in which I lived in the Philippines, from 1997 until 2003, the CBS Evening News, and Dan Rather was one of the American faces and news sources that was available on a daily basis. Many of us were still around and remember the retirement of Walter Cronkite, that fatherly figure of American broadcast journalism. Dan Rather's retirement probably, and most likely, doesn't jar our emotions quite as much as that of Walter Cronkite's retirement, but this is, nonetheless, another important historical milestone passing us by. Dan Rather was on the front line at CBS News for decades also -- likely more so in fact, than the other three news anchors on network news. I'm sure we all have feelings about objectivity concerning broadcast media journalism, as I do. Nevertheless, Peter Jennings and Tom Brokow certainly do not measure up to the stature of Dan Rather in terms of a veteran news anchor, with a network that was a pioneer in reporting news for almost three-quarters of a century! I suggest to you, that I am saddened by Dan Rather's retirement as news anchor at CBS Evening News. He was, after all, someone who had experienced the same historical realities for the past several decades, that I have exerienced myself, and understood them (although from a very different philosophical perspective). The upbeat of this, is that in Dan Rather's retirement announcement tonight on CBS News, he also stated that he intends to be around for a while, on both 60-Minutes Sunday and Wednesday programmes, and other assignments with CBS News. I hope so! This brings me back to a hard reality. We all get older as time passes on. Things do not remain the same. We like to cling upon what we know, and at least somewhat trust or distruct, often times not knowing what the future will bring to broadcast journalism. In all honesty, I doubt Dan Rather had THAT much to do with various slants and opinions with regard to the CBS News moguls. Some or most of that was probably decided by a carefully selected staff of engineers of politically and socially correct media planners. I propose to you, I don't know how exactly all of the mechanics of this really works. But I will miss Dan Rather as the CBS Evening News anchor after March. Kindest regards, Frank Reichert Moderator, Liberty Northwest Conference & Newsgroup _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
