CBS and Dan Rather
Well... What I was afraid of has happened. CBS has been fooled by partisan political operatives. As much as this liberal, lefty, Democrat hates to admit it. In Mr. Rather's rush to want to believe a story to be true (a story which still may be true, a fact that's now lost due to CBS's incompetence), they have settled the National Guard issue for the President. Thanks CBS! Every Democrat in the country should be calling for Dan Rather to step down. This was irresponsible journalism at best, partisan bias at worst. I suppose this might turn out to actually be a good thing. Maybe we can put Vietnam to rest for the stretch run of the campaign. There are other issues to debate I suppose. There is a very troubling trend happening with news though. There was a great Op-Ed piece in the Star Tribune yesterday about networks rushing to get news on the air, that the facts of a story are being lost. Also, in todays society "fair and balanced" is now having someone from the right and someone from the left sit on a show and try to outshout each other. Americans now have to be "entertained" by their news or a majority won't watch. This is a sad fact. I really don't know what news outlet to trust anymore. For example, if CBS has a liberal bias, there's another network that leans severely right and that's Fox "news". It seems to me they have a hard time reporting anything critical of the President. I do watch CNN and they seem to be at least somewhat unbiased in some of their reporting. This brings me to another issue. What defines "bias"? I think CBS rushing faked documents on the air qualifies as severe bias. But do I think Fox news is biased just because I disagree with almost all of the President's policies? Maybe, but I really don't think so. When I'm watching Brit Hume ask a reporter from a conservative news magazine "Was it possible that the President's National Guard unit could have been called up for service in Vietnam?" and that reporter says "Yes" when we all know the fact of the matter is that there was no way that unit would ever see combat. I feel that's a very strong bias.
posted by Big Scott | 9:02 AM
1 Comments:
Basically, I agree with everything you said here. I like this article. I still will continue to watch and get my news from Fox, because I'm comfortable with their reporters, but I can see spin or bias or whatever when it happens, because I am an educated man (haha). Nobody has still told me why it is so bad that Fox leans a little right, when all the other outlets lean left.
By the way, you're gonna tell me that CNN is independent when two of their correspondents (James Carville and Paul Begala) are unpaid Kerry advisors and nobody says anything? This is unethical journalism. If they want to be part of the Kerry team, that's fine. They should take a leave of absence from CNN. But CNN has allowed them to stay on board. Can you imagine how apeshit the world would go if O'Reilly or (better example) Brit Hume suddenly became a Bush advisor?
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