Rather, Losing his credibility.

September 22nd, 2004

Dan Rather sulks
CBS News faced new charges of journalistic impropriety on Sept. 21, 2004,
a day after the network said it regretted using questionable documents in a report
challenging President Bush’s military service.
At issue was a report in USA Today that the source of
the documents had given them to CBS only after the network agreed to
arrange a conversation between the source and the presidential campaign
of Bush’s opponent, Democratic Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites).
News anchor Dan Rather is shown at a news conference in New York on October 18, 2001. (Peter Morgan/Reuters)

10 Responses to “Rather, Losing his credibility.”

  1. lillie said:

    September 22nd, 2004 at 9:50 am

    Sad sad sad. This is not just one reporter, this is a whole news organization. If the rumors are true (I am not able to vouch for the veracity of said rumors) then this is not just a matter of Dan Rather signing off — CBS has just been caught making a whore of itself. That, then, makes this the question: do people feel angry and betrayed and lied-to to the point that Danny Boy and CBS news are ruined? I mean, do people really care? Is Viacom stock going to tumble and damage the economy? Or is this just going to blow over?

  2. ramdac said:

    September 22nd, 2004 at 10:37 am

    Viacom could go down, but I don’t think to the point where it would damage the economy.

    I do, however, think that “Danny Boy” might be ruined–at least in the short term. His producer(s) may definitely be ruined. I believe one producer in particular, the one here in Dallas, will be outed.

    I think others shows on CBS may suffer a while too, but I think they will recover.

  3. anonymous said:

    September 22nd, 2004 at 11:04 am

    Boy, the noose around Dan Rather’s neck “is tighter than the lug nuts on a 57″ Chevy.”

    Deservedly so.

  4. Joey said:

    September 22nd, 2004 at 12:01 pm

    I think the producers will be hit first, but I think that Dan Rather will be ruined. I think you will see declining numbers for CBS Programming, and they will be forced to do something dramatic.
    CBS was already losing viewers to Fox anyway, but this only makes it worse.

    I knew Dan Rather hated President Bush. You could tell when he almost cried when Bush won the election in 2000. But Rather and the Producers went overboard with this. Trying to influence an election is a serious problem from a major new organization.

  5. Joey said:

    September 22nd, 2004 at 12:02 pm

    Oh to answer the question though

    Dan Rather couldn’t lose credibilty with me though, because he never really had it.

  6. anonymous said:

    September 22nd, 2004 at 1:07 pm

    What is amazing to me is Dan has had many scrapes before! Here is a interesting article that gives a quick run down of them:
    http://slate.msn.com/id/2107006/fr/ifr/

    Each one of those (from what I have read because I am not old enough to really rememeber, even though I make 25 today :) ) where about as big as this scrape. How many can he survive while bringing in low ratings?

    Does anyone remember his previous problems first hand?

  7. anonymous said:

    September 22nd, 2004 at 2:31 pm

    You simply have to understand the attitudes among these elitist snobs in today’s newsrooms.

    To them, the bottom line (making lots of bucks) doesn’t really matter, as long they go about the honorable duties of helping to defeat a right-wing, anti-choice, racist, gun-loving, homophobic, fascist, woman-hating, war-mongering pig and religious kook who trumps Adolf Hitler on the evil scale.

    As long as that’s accomplished, who cares what their ratings are.

    It may not be something they do consciously, but that’s how they really feel……..objectivity be damned!

  8. Joey said:

    September 22nd, 2004 at 3:04 pm

    Chris, I dont completely agree. I think to some in the CBS organization do care about the bottom line. Dan Rather and some of the producers may not care about money, but you can bet your arse that Viacom cares. This is what I am betting on will get Rather out of office(hehe).

    I do agree that these major media outlets sell their ideas under the umbrella of a legitimate looking journalistic viewpoint.

  9. anonymous said:

    September 22nd, 2004 at 3:36 pm

    Let me clarify, Joey.

    These are the attitudes among many of the journalists themselves.

    Now, Viacom, however, cares, I have no doubt.

    The producer’s father told someone his daughter “got into the journalism business to advance a radical feminist agenda.”

    It’s about time some of the corporate people stepped in………where have they been?

  10. Joey said:

    September 27th, 2004 at 10:11 am

    I read a story last night about CBS playing bird sounds during their golf TV coverage. Some bird People figured it out because the bird sounds they used werent from the area the coverage was at. More CBS lies. hehehe

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