Even those who win one moment can face horrific, brutal loss in the next. The rich and famous are no more spared than the rest of us.
Bernard Goldberg has unearthed a "lost fact" in the Rathergate mess: that George W. Bush volunteered to serve in Vietnam. Until valid paperwork is produced, that claim will remain a supposition.
There's been a major power shift in the United States over the past forty years. Power has devolved from the Russells, Kerrs and Johnsons to the lobbyists.
Kurtz asserts that the journalism crisis is not a political issue, but the result of economic and technological forces alone. If only that were true.
In the wake of the revered Walter Cronkite's passing, I've attempted to isolate the ten best movies about journalism.
Senate Majority Leaders Harry Reid says no vote on Obama health care plan until after recess. If ever.
Dan Rather won't let go of his 2007 lawsuit against CBS. There's a reason. He's holding a decent hand, and he's got sticktoitiveness.
Cronkite was so important because he was about the only person in this intensely divided America that both sides could trust. He was our no-frills common bond.
When we lose public figures who become such an enduring part of our private lives, we lose a part of ourselves. We also realize, like Dylan Thomas, that we too, won't go gently into that good night.
As we mourn "the most trusted man in America" we also mourn the kind of television news that no longer exists. Today, the job he perfected has largely lost its relevance.
Although I am sure that Walter Cronkite had friends in politics, he did not give money to political campaigns or actively support candidates. I won't either.
Dowd showed us that the media, in its progression from establishment to grass root, from paper to Apple, has reached the Dowd Nexus and is now irretrievably past the point of no return.
Several years ago, Les Moonves, President of CBS, publically suggested he wanted to "blow up" CBS News. What a sad departure from our golden days. CB...
If "Dow, 30,000 by 2008: Why It's Different This Time" wasn't optimistic enough, there was David Elias' "Dow 40,000: Strategies for Profiting from the Greatest Bull Market in History."
Our lack of attention to international issues could become the prelude to more tragedy around the world. In the next week or so, Uganda will be pulling out all stops to gain a seat on the United Nations Security Council.
Please NBC, let Brokaw resume his status as elder statesmen and reminder to us all of a generation of newsmen who seemed to think that they were better and smarter than their viewers.
Campus Crusade's total revenue for 2006 was $497,516,000. This mega-fundamentalist organization is hardly some rinky-dink little group of religious enthusiasts that's barely capable of running a church.
There was only one Tim Russert, but in selecting a suitable replacement for Meet the Press, in my opinion, there are only two names from which to choose: Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw.
At the National Conference for Media Reform I shed a few tears for the lost honor of my profession -- and for the crumbling integrity of our democracy, knowing that as I wept, other fearless journalists fight on.
McClellan's criticisms about the media been met with denials from TV news anchors. But Dan Rather offered a strong critique of the journalists' performance in his Saturday speech.
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***Speaking outside the courthouse, Rather said the case puts "an important principle" at stake: "Are we going to let big corporations and big government decide what we hear and see on the news?"
He accused CBS of having "buried an important story to curry favor with and protect the powerful politicians who regulate them. That's a big part of this lawsuit."***
http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssMediaDiversified/idUSN2127269720090921?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0
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Just the sound of "Big Corporation" and "Big Government" coupled together is a scary thing.
I would agree that it was wrong to go forward with a news story based on un-verified documents, but it seems the whole network should have taken on the mea culpa, why just Rather? And these days, my God! Most of the news we hear is fake - except for Jon Stewart's fake news, which is actually more real than most. Now I'm confused....
THE FATHER of the fall of broadcast journalism as trusted profession.
TODAY - HE WOULDN'T BE FIRED BY ANY NETWORK FOR THE SAME ACT.
We're pulling for you, Dan !!!!
The Rove team used something very similar when they had a journalist with a criminal background write a biography about Bush. They supplied him with truthful information, and when he began to publish it, they pulled the rug from under him by pointing to his past criminal background. This deligitimized the truth.
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