Professional reader Katie Couric has led CBS Evening News to its lowest ratings in 20 years.
Somewhere, Dan Rather is laughing his ass off.
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Actually Dan Rather probably doesn’t have time to laugh his ass off these days because he is still too busy doing real journalism.
Oliver, why don’t you like katie? I mean, cant you add a few thoughts besides throwing a link and a laugh?
Because she isn’t a journalist. She’s Mary Hart without the smile. She’s an info-tainer. And she has no business pretending to be a serious newsperson.
Maybe if you read the links you wouldn’t ask me to repeat myself?
Andy Rooney pointed out that if CBS took Katie salary and hired reporters in every major city in the world CBS would have the world best news organization.
Instead CBS is the worst; we don’t count Faux Noise ….
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Dan Rather may be laughing his ass off, but Sen. Kerry is weeping softly, because Rather cost him the election.
Rather didn’t cost Kerry the election. Stupid asshole, fuckwit, right-wing, chickenshit voters who voted for the proven failure cost Kerry the election. Them, and a few well-placed Rethug secretaries of state.
But millions in Iraq are the ones weeping; that ain’t entirely Dan Rather’s fault.
You do a great impression of an ignorant right-wing tool, fd. Are you sure you aren’t a wingnut welfare plant? You do spend a hell of a lot of time here.
Hey you are right about Her Royal Perkiness, but Dan Rather? Is there a more discredited media employee (notice I didn’t say journalist) in the country than Dan Rather. Well, maybe Mary Mapes.
Yes, Dugger, there are more discredited media employees–anybody who works at Fock Snooze, for example.
You mean, outside of Bill O’Reilly?
“You mean, outside of Bill O’Reilly?”
Did O’Reilly do something worse than forging documents to try and steal an election like Rather? I don’t remember having heard that.
Your definition of “discredited” requires clarification. O’Reilly has been having his bullshit called out for years and years now. He’s an inveterate liar and has been discredited time and again.
I’m going quantity over quality here. You choose to go the other way, that’s fine, I just didn’t know that.
O’Reilly isn’t a journalist. Neither is Katie Couric for that matter and that is her biggest problem. Despite his obvious liberal bias, there is no question that Dan Rather is/was a journalist which gave him significant credibility, until he threw it all away with the forged documents.
The problem with the news today is that we don’t know where the entertainment division ends and the news division starts; where the opinion ends and the journalism starts.
Olberman is a perfect example. One minute he is MSNBC’s O’Reilly, bashing anything Republican, and the next minute he is moderating the Republican post-debate coverage. Couple that with “journalists” who no longer want to just report the story but want to make the story or be the story (cough, cough, David Gregory), and what passes for journalism might be better off being run by the networks’ entertainment divisions.
Cronkite never did opinion, and Andy Rooney never did hard news. That defining line no longer exists.
Cronkite never did opinion
You should crack open a history book sometime.
In one extraordinary moment, perhaps. But Crokite didn’t do the news at 6 and then go on cable at 10 with Democratic lapdogs bashing the Republicans, or vice versa. Any opinion Cronkite gave was the exception, not the rule. Not so for today’s “journalists.”
Cronkite’s special commentary is no different than Olbermann’s, in the tradition of Edward R. Murrow. Cronkite was right then, and that same tape is right now.
Funny that.
And at the very least, I’d bet he wrote that himself.
The Worst Person in the World is “in the tradition of Edward R. Murrow”?
No, dumbass, the Special Commentary.
Oh, you know what I mean, ya big silly!
My bad. I thought you meant holding up a mask of his rival and giving a crowd a nazi salute. There’s an Edward R. Murrow moment.
Hawhahahahaha! Oh, that is the funny! Ooooh me oh my, you pwned me!
Now go away.
“My bad. I thought you meant holding up a mask of his rival and giving a crowd a nazi salute.”
That rival defending war crimes committed by Nazis by accusing Americans of being the perpetrators.
You left out that little detail.