Dan crashes - Bush flies high

http://www.gregpalast.com/dan-crashes-bush-flies-high


They finally put Dan Rather out of his misery. Today, CBS finally terminated him and sent him to the electronic glue factory — all for reporting the truth. But not all of it.

Rather’s “unsubstantiated story of Bush’s military service” (says USA Today) got him canned. Yet, all the poor man did was repeat a story we put on BBC Television a year earlier — that Poppy Bush put in the fix to get his son out of ‘Nam and into the Texas Air Guard, spending his war years guarding Houston from Viet Cong attack.

But Dan never reported this: the documentation from inside the US Department of Justice detailing the fix. Why not? Because it opened up a far more serious charge: that those who kept Little George out of war’s way ended up very well rewarded. We ran that full story — from the evidence of the fix to the evidence of the lucrative pay-backs — on the world’s biggest network, BBC, and we’ve never retracted a comma of it. Nor, by the way, has the White House denied our accusations despite our repeated offers to respond.

George’s slithering out of combat turned into big pay-days for those in on the fix and its cover-up: Harriett Miers (remember her?), Karen Hughes and Texas lobbyists.

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The Necklace-ing of Dan Rather
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and another article about Dan

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/06/06/con06252.html

Dan Rather, RIP, Assassinated by the Media Company He Loved

It was a physical assassination that brought Dan Rather to national TV attention when, as a Texas based-reporter known for bravery in covering hurricanes, he reported the murder of John F. Kennedy. (He got it wrong initially reporting JFK was shot by a bullet that exited in the back.)

His long and colorful career as a TV anchor has now been killed by a media assassination staged by his own company.

Call the team in from CSI to analyze the blood on the floor!

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CBS has had along history of turning its heroes into zeroes, Edward R. Murrow was pushed out even after his McCarthy investigation, which today is memorialized in a motion picture. What many don't remember is that CBS cancelled his "See It Now" program. Murrow would later say that TV was being used "to insulate the citizenry from the hard and demanding realities which must be faced if we are to survive." He warned that TV was in danger of being reduced to "wires and lights in a box."

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Now a trifecta of anchor exits is complete. Brokaw gone at NBC, Jennings dead at ABC and Rather pushed out while holding on for dignity's sake even after his anchor chair was knocked out from under it. When I visited the CBS News command module, I was dissuaded from sitting it it -- a warning sign even made sure no one but the Big Man himself was allowed to saddle up.

While News personalities come and go, the news machine grinds on only in a new era of convergence between television and the internet, with the only certainty that it too will change, and, on the evidence so far, not for the better.
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Harriet and Karen gang whores

I'm sure Rather knew the whole story but he also knew that reporting the whole story would get him canned faster. I imagine that hindsight is giving him quite a few regrets today, regrets that he didn't just go with the whole story and let the chips fall where they may, since the outcome was the same.

In any case, refusing to offer my precious time and attention to advertisers during the nighbly propaganda hour was one of my smartest decisions. I am much more optimistic without the cognitive dissonance provided by chirpy happy talkers on the economy, the war, the administration.

I learn more about this country from the alternative: Simpson's reruns.

Good and better things are coming his way!

RagingInMiami (1000+ posts) Wed Jun-21-06 10:00 AM
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Dan Rather's reporting days may not be over (he may be "unleashed")
Rather's exit -- preceded by weeks of ugly leaks and sniping from both sides -- was the final chapter of a housecleaning at CBS News that began nearly two years ago after a Rather report on President Bush's Vietnam-era National Guard service had to be retracted amid accusations that it was based on forged documents.

But his departure from the only network for which he's ever worked doesn't mean the 74-year-old Rather is leaving television. Mark Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks owner who also controls the cable network HDNet, said he's close to a deal that would bring Rather back as host of a news show.

'The goal is to `unleash' him, if you will,'' Cuban told The Miami Herald. ``Let him get out and work on stories that he had wanted to do but his previous corporate structure wouldn't allow for.''

Cuban said he hopes to release more details on the HDNet program soon. ''We are still in the process of defining the programming, and the deal isn't completely done yet,'' he said.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/colu...


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