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Dan Rather on Real Time with Bill Maher

submitted by blahpook

1 decade 2 years 9 months ago

Dan Rather slammed corporate media, alleging that news coverage is guided by political interests and profits. He also discloses that he was fired because CBS News caved into the Bush administration's demands, and then swaps fascinating facts about the increasing corporatization of media.

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It's times like these that I wish I could promote.

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PlayhousePals

We could sure benefit from more news men like Dan Rather =o)

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What's the frequency, Kenneth?

Fantastic interview.

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Wow, I just lost a lot of respect for Dan Rather.

I am no fan of Bush, but looking over the history of the whole Killian documents scandal on Wikipedia, it's pretty clear that all the people who lost their jobs at CBS did so because they ran a news story without authenticating documents that were produced by someone who was notoriously anti-Bush and was only willing to turn them over if CBS helped him get a book deal. They then went on to misrepresent statements made by people connected to the event in a way that seemingly corroborated the documents. After learning all these facts, Dan himself said he would not have used the documents to run the story... but without the documents there WAS no story. Only an anti-Bush zealot claiming misconduct with no proof to back up his claims.

kingmob says...

That was great watching Bill Maher treat someone with respect. I wonder who else he respects in this world?

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