On 23-Nov-04, Lowell C. Savage wrote: LCS>>> While many members on this list may not care much either way about LCS>>> the issues that Dan was partisan in favor of or partisan against, the LCS>>> fact was that he held himself up as a newsman and, in the end, showed LCS>>> that news from him could not be trusted.
FR>> Probably because the venue and content was orchastrated by the FR>> "professional" news spin doctors that were behind the scenes FR>> putting the programme together! Didn't I allude to that just FR>> earlier? LCS> Sorry. Dan might have been "orchestrated" by others to some degree, LCS> but he had an awful lot of control over what happened. As I understand it, "The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather" was Rather's baby. He decided the content, which stories to air and which to bury, and in what order. There is no evidence that he disagreed with his bosses on content. FR>> ... My purpose here was only to point out that an important milestone FR>> is passing us by, for better or worse, that is, in terms of seasoned FR>> journalists with a long and honourable resume that probably surpasses FR>> contemporary news anchors. LCS> That is pretty much what I thought your point was. And my point was LCS> that Rather's resume, while long, is not particularly honorable. He LCS> sullied his reputation in his eagerness to "get Bush" and since CBS LCS> didn't fire him outright over that story, he has managed to take CBS LCS> down with him. All three broadcast networks' news departments have decayed greatly since the days of Cronkheit, Severeid, Reasoner, Edwards, et al, and the revered Edward R. Murrow. In the "old days," the news departments were expected to lose money. When the bean counters called a halt to that, things went downhill fast. A milestone may be passing, but I, for one, won't miss him. _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
