Comments on: Rather: Journalism Has ‘Lost Its Guts’ http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/13/dan-rather-journalism-has-lost-its-guts/ As The Media Watches The World, We Watch The Media Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:07:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Payday Loan Advocate http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/13/dan-rather-journalism-has-lost-its-guts/#comment-23566 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:04:30 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/13/dan-rather-journalism-has-lost-its-guts/#comment-23566 Vice Presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has been getting more negative attention than positive attention from the media. For example, last Saturday Palin made her late-night entertainment debut on Saturday Night Live. Instead of commending Palin for playing along or mentioning that her appearance gave SNL its highest ratings in 14 years, the press criticized her for her appearance. Palin has been under constant attack; the media has bashed Palin for her performance as Governor of Alaska, the pregnancy of her unmarried 17-year-old daughter, and even her character. The media has stooped to new lows by implying that the United States would self-destruct should Palin have to replace McCain as president. As is typical with unbalanced news-reporting, these attacks are misconstrued half-truths. In fact, Sarah Palin has a large number of admirers who commend her for her persistent effort to improve the state of Alaska. Other admirers point to her unwavering support of the disabled population and her push for the interests of special-needs individuals, like those with autism and Down syndrome. Many more followers put their trust in Sarah Palin because she advocates for personal responsibility and financial freedom. Palin opposes the elimination of cash advances, a legitimate and invaluable resource because people have the right to financial freedoms and the right to choose to get a payday loan. Post Courtesy of Personal Money Store Professional Blogging Team Feed Back: 1-866-641-3406 Home: http://personalmoneystore.com/NoFaxPaydayLoans.html Blog: http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/ Vice Presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has been getting more negative attention than positive attention from the media. For example, last Saturday Palin made her late-night entertainment debut on Saturday Night Live. Instead of commending Palin for playing along or mentioning that her appearance gave SNL its highest ratings in 14 years, the press criticized her for her appearance. Palin has been under constant attack; the media has bashed Palin for her performance as Governor of Alaska, the pregnancy of her unmarried 17-year-old daughter, and even her character. The media has stooped to new lows by implying that the United States would self-destruct should Palin have to replace McCain as president. As is typical with unbalanced news-reporting, these attacks are misconstrued half-truths. In fact, Sarah Palin has a large number of admirers who commend her for her persistent effort to improve the state of Alaska. Other admirers point to her unwavering support of the disabled population and her push for the interests of special-needs individuals, like those with autism and Down syndrome. Many more followers put their trust in Sarah Palin because she advocates for personal responsibility and financial freedom. Palin opposes the elimination of cash advances, a legitimate and invaluable resource because people have the right to financial freedoms and the right to choose to get a payday loan.
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]]> by: Scott Ledger http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/13/dan-rather-journalism-has-lost-its-guts/#comment-1596 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:53:28 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/13/dan-rather-journalism-has-lost-its-guts/#comment-1596 Mr Rather ... you no longer collect a paycheck ... so 'now' you speak out?(that must make it easier huh?) The rest of the MSM? for instance, Fox on the far Right and Comedy Central on the left(sad I Know) pays talking heads to deliver "news" big $$$$. Once again money does the talking in this country. And buy the way...my 9 year old boy can look at the 'offical' 9/11 story and see it's a big hunk of swiss cheese. Wake up! Both wars are lies...and so is that fateful day in September Mr Rather … you no longer collect a paycheck … so ‘now’ you speak out?(that must make it easier huh?) The rest of the MSM? for instance, Fox on the far Right and Comedy Central on the left(sad I Know) pays talking heads to deliver “news” big $$$$. Once again money does the talking in this country. And buy the way…my 9 year old boy can look at the ‘offical’ 9/11 story and see it’s a big hunk of swiss cheese. Wake up! Both wars are lies…and so is that fateful day in September

]]> by: Seth Albaum http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/13/dan-rather-journalism-has-lost-its-guts/#comment-928 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:55:36 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/13/dan-rather-journalism-has-lost-its-guts/#comment-928 I'm responding as a teacher of inner city high school kids. One of my classes is Broadcast Journalism. When television journalists lose their spine, they lose more of their younger audience to the web. While Dan Rather is correct that the internet is a great tool, the online world is full of conspiracy-theorists and barely-guised sites with agendas claiming to deliver news. I am dismayed at how many of my students buy into crazy theories about 9-11 being an inside job, for example. I think they're attracted to those sites because mainstream outlets do not present enough information, nor do they ask the right questions. Journalism will not only turn off the public as it goes soft (I suppose it already has), but it will turn the public towards anyone and anything with a little more bite. Let's face it. To many teens, news is "boring." News that doesn't deliver the goods, is beyond boring. Kids are turning away from professional news because of the fluff while unsubstantiated claims and online rumors takeover. Good work! I’m responding as a teacher of inner city high school kids. One of my classes is Broadcast Journalism.

When television journalists lose their spine, they lose more of their younger audience to the web.
While Dan Rather is correct that the internet is a great tool, the online world is full of conspiracy-theorists and barely-guised sites with agendas claiming to deliver news.
I am dismayed at how many of my students buy into crazy theories about 9-11 being an inside job, for example. I think they’re attracted to those sites because mainstream outlets do not present enough information, nor do they ask the right questions.
Journalism will not only turn off the public as it goes soft (I suppose it already has), but it will turn the public towards anyone and anything with a little more bite.
Let’s face it. To many teens, news is “boring.” News that doesn’t deliver the goods, is beyond boring. Kids are turning away from professional news because of the fluff while unsubstantiated claims and online rumors takeover.
Good work!

]]> by: Mark http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/13/dan-rather-journalism-has-lost-its-guts/#comment-727 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:27:37 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/13/dan-rather-journalism-has-lost-its-guts/#comment-727 Mr. Rather, Your voice is bigger than the average bear. Please help support the man that can change our great nation to what you know it could be.... Please promote Ron Paul for president in 2008... Thank you Mr. Rather,

Your voice is bigger than the average bear. Please help support the man that can change our great nation to what you know it could be….
Please promote Ron Paul for president in 2008…

Thank you

]]> by: Larry Farlow http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/13/dan-rather-journalism-has-lost-its-guts/#comment-691 Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:21:39 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/13/dan-rather-journalism-has-lost-its-guts/#comment-691 The late, great, editor of the old Boston Record American once described "A Journalist as a Newspaperman out of a job." You want to be a reporter, go report. You want to be a journalist, go write a book or work for a weekly "news" magazine. The late, great, editor of the old Boston Record American once described “A Journalist as a Newspaperman out of a job.” You want to be a reporter, go report. You want to be a journalist, go write a book or work for a weekly “news” magazine.

]]> by: William Steele http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/13/dan-rather-journalism-has-lost-its-guts/#comment-679 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:16:26 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/13/dan-rather-journalism-has-lost-its-guts/#comment-679 Dan Rather's comments confuse "journalism" with "journalists" and "powerful journalists" with "journalists". We have to keep in mind that what we see in our daily newspaper is not what Rather calls "reality" but the end result of an editorial process. In general, journalists write FOR newspapers and not for the public. Their job is to improve the lot of their employers. What business are their employers in? What do they produce that makes a profit for them? The sorry fact is that the product of the commercial media is not what most people believe it to be. Take commercial media as the extreme example. The only product that commercial television can sell to THEIR customers (other businesses) is audiences -- that is what ratings is about. In other words, journalists work for people who make their living from selling the audiences that whatch their stations. In this sense, the journalist is already a lapdog -- sitting comfortably in the lap of their corporate employer whose only means of producing a profit is by building and then selling the largest possible audience of viewers to the highest bidder. But then I am sure Rather knows this already. Dan Rather’s comments confuse “journalism” with “journalists” and “powerful journalists” with “journalists”. We have to keep in mind that what we see in our daily newspaper is not what Rather calls “reality” but the end result of an editorial process. In general, journalists write FOR newspapers and not for the public. Their job is to improve the lot of their employers. What business are their employers in? What do they produce that makes a profit for them? The sorry fact is that the product of the commercial media is not what most people believe it to be. Take commercial media as the extreme example. The only product that commercial television can sell to THEIR customers (other businesses) is audiences — that is what ratings is about. In other words, journalists work for people who make their living from selling the audiences that whatch their stations. In this sense, the journalist is already a lapdog — sitting comfortably in the lap of their corporate employer whose only means of producing a profit is by building and then selling the largest possible audience of viewers to the highest bidder. But then I am sure Rather knows this already.

]]> by: Kate Madison http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/13/dan-rather-journalism-has-lost-its-guts/#comment-677 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:03:58 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/13/dan-rather-journalism-has-lost-its-guts/#comment-677 Thank you, Mr. Rather! I too have been depressed and disappointed by the spineless state of our "access" journalism. I do believe were it not for very powerful journalists with great access in the White House (i.e, Bob Woodward and Judith Miller) we very well might not have gone so easily into Iraq! I know I had a hundred questions during the run up to the war, and I was completely amazed at how few almost all members of the fourth estate seemed to have. I concluded that most were "bought off"--by the perks and the access they thought they wanted and needed. This has saddened me so, and I don't really see it changing in the Mainstream Presx! Certainly in the alternative press there is a groundswell! But old habits die hard, and it may take another generation before our news organizations become the true fourth estate they were meant to be! I am grateful to you for speaking out--and for not becoming bitter! Peace and Health- Kate Madison Depoe Bay, Oregon Thebigkate@yahoo.com Thank you, Mr. Rather!

I too have been depressed and disappointed by the spineless state of our “access” journalism. I do believe were it not for very powerful journalists with great access in the White House (i.e, Bob Woodward and Judith Miller) we very well might not have gone so easily into Iraq!

I know I had a hundred questions during the run up to the war, and I was completely amazed at how few almost all members of the fourth estate seemed to have. I concluded that most were “bought off”–by the perks and the access they thought they wanted and needed. This has saddened me so, and I don’t really see it changing in the Mainstream Presx! Certainly in the alternative press there is a groundswell! But old habits die hard, and it may take another generation before our news organizations become the true fourth estate they were meant to be! I am grateful to you for speaking out–and for not becoming bitter!

Peace and Health-

Kate Madison
Depoe Bay, Oregon
Thebigkate@yahoo.com

]]> by: Harriet F. Abrahms http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/13/dan-rather-journalism-has-lost-its-guts/#comment-674 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:25:07 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/13/dan-rather-journalism-has-lost-its-guts/#comment-674 Thank You, Mr. Rather! You stated what had to be said! Been waiting a long time for someone of stature to say what has been obvious to me for the last few years! Since you were one of a few not afraid to speak truth to power and had the ability to extract answers to tough questions, your words will have more impact! I'm waiting for a "gut transplant" for the current crop of "journalists". Thank You, Mr. Rather! You stated what
had to be said! Been waiting a long time
for someone of stature to say what has
been obvious to me for the last few years!
Since you were one of a few not afraid
to speak truth to power and had the ability to extract answers to tough questions, your words will have more impact! I’m waiting for a “gut transplant” for the current crop of “journalists”.

]]> by: Julia Burns http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/13/dan-rather-journalism-has-lost-its-guts/#comment-668 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:42:26 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/03/13/dan-rather-journalism-has-lost-its-guts/#comment-668 Mr. Rather, I think that people are misunderstood by the press. I can't speak for right-wingers who only want to hear what they already believe, but for the rest of us, I believe that our criticism is the very spinelessness that you see, and also the "herd mentality" that you and only a handful of others avoid. It is my great respect for what I believed journalism was about that makes me critical of so many of today's practicianers. Keep up the good work! Mr. Rather,

I think that people are misunderstood by the press. I can’t speak for right-wingers who only want to hear what they already believe, but for the rest of us, I believe that our criticism is the very spinelessness that you see, and also the “herd mentality” that you and only a handful of others avoid. It is my great respect for what I believed journalism was about that makes me critical of so many of today’s practicianers. Keep up the good work!

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