Is Dan Rather Lobbying For a Media Czar Title?

posted at 1:13 pm on July 30, 2009 by
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Via our friends at Newbusters, (because the servers at Aspen Daily News must be overloaded), Mr. “fake, but accurate” is calling on the President to form a “White House commission on public media”. According to Rather, corporate and political influence has damaged the industry:

 

“I personally encourage the president to establish a White House commission on public media,” Rather said, according to the July 29 Aspen Daily News.

“According to the story, Rather said “corporate and political influence” on newsrooms had damaged the industry and was cause for concern.

“A truly free and independent press is the red beating heart of democracy and freedom,” Rather said in an interview. “This is not something just for journalists to be concerned about, and the loss of jobs and the loss of newspapers, and the diminution of the American press’ traditional role of being the watchdog on power. This is something every citizen should be concerned about.” (emphasis mine)

“Watchdog” or “lapdog” Dan?  Which is it?  Mr. Rather, (and CBS), disgraced the journalism industry when they attempted to influence a presidential election using “questionable documents”. Now this liberal hack believes it’s time for the Obama administration to come to the aid of the failing media to preserve their “hierarchy”. (Note: If dapper Dan gets the media Czar post, I nominate Bill Keller as assistant propaganda Czar and Maureen Dowd as the secretary of (insert qualifying adjective here).

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Other than non-eating people, Dan would be the craziest leader of any major group since Idi Amin lost control in Uganda. I wonder if TV stations and newspapers would have to add on a little graphic or box listing each day’s frequency once Rather becomes their overseer.

jon1979 on July 30, 2009 at 1:43 PM

If Dan Rather says the sky is blue, I’m checking for myself…

The sad part is, to the statist mind, having a “media czar” makes sense….

Mew

acat on July 30, 2009 at 2:29 PM

“I personally encourage the president to establish a White House commission on public media,” Rather said, according to the July 29 Aspen Daily News.

This old fool crawled out from under a rock and anyone is supposed to listen?

“According to the story, Rather said “corporate and political influence” on newsrooms had damaged the industry and was cause for concern.

You mean like the GE/NBC Connection and billions from this administration.

“A truly free and independent press is the red beating heart of democracy and freedom,” Rather said in an interview. “This is not something just for journalists to be concerned about, and the loss of jobs and the loss of newspapers, and the diminution of the American press’ traditional role of being the watchdog on power. This is something every citizen should be concerned about.” (emphasis mine)

So you want the #1 beneficiary of slanted news coverage to pick a czar to watch over the slanting of the media?

Jeff from WI on July 31, 2009 at 6:03 AM