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The First Rathergate

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The Bush memos are a thread elsewhere so I thought I would post this connected story I ran across.

The First Rathergate - September 15, 2004
Critics are calling the media scandal over the Jerry Killian forgeries "Rathergate." But to thousands of Vietnam veterans, the real Rathergate took place 16 years ago when Dan Rather successfully foisted a fraud onto the American people.

On June 2, 1988, CBS aired an hour-long special titled CBS Reports: The Wall Within, which CBS trumpeted as the "rebirth of the TV documentary."

The The Wall Within was hailed by critics who — like the Washington Post's Tom Shales — gushed that the documentary was "extraordinarily powerful." There was just one problem: Almost none of it was true.

...the records of all of these vets were easily checkable through Freedom of Information Act requests of their military records — something Rather and his producers simply didn't bother to do.
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Personally I dislike Dan Rather, I find him a self-important talking head with delusions of grandeur. But I never heard about "Rathergate" ;) until today.
 
Rather has a string of forged and falsified stories behind him.

Neither he, nor CBS news, has any right to stand on their 'journalistic integrity'...they simply do not have any, and it is by their own choice.
 
Rather and the other anchors are nothing more than talking bobble heads. They read off teleprompters for a living.

There's a wonderful documentry in theaters right now called "Anchorman". Its a true life look at news anchors.;)
 
Tmy said:
Rather and the other anchors are nothing more than talking bobble heads. They read off teleprompters for a living.

There's a wonderful documentry in theaters right now called "Anchorman". Its a true life look at news anchors.;)
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I nearly coughed up a lung laughing at the scene at the end where the dog talks to the bear. I think I was the only person in the theatre who "got it" though.
 
I've lost respect for most reporters. They usually have their own self interest in mind.

The news they report is usually one sided.
 
There was supposed to be an "announcement" from CBS this afternoon. Anyone hear what it was about?
 
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