Dan Rather's Carry-On Baggage

[Rosco T.]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/11/AR2006071101588.html

Dan Rather's Carry-On Baggage

By Lisa de Moraes
Wednesday, July 12, 2006; Page C01

Former CBS newsman Dan Rather says he'll have complete editorial control over the content of the weekly newsmagazine he will kick off for Mark Cuban's HDNet in October.

"News at its best is a wake-up call, not a lullaby, and I'm not in the lullaby business," Rather told reporters Tuesday at Summer TV Press Tour 2006.

(snip)

"Yes, I have baggage -- I have the baggage of being a graduate of the journalism school of South Vietnam," he said.

(snip)

"Some of what you describe as 'baggage,' " he told one critic, "comes from people who have the following view: Their view is, 'You report the news the way I want it reported or I'm going to make you pay a price and hang a sign around your neck saying you're a bomb-toting Bolshevik or something.' "

(snip)

"I've been painted into so many corners, I'm out of corners," Cuban told the critics. "I'm not concerned at all because the work will speak for itself." He said he'd already been inundated with e-mail from Rather detractors and assumed they were pretty worn out by now. Cuban said he was thrilled to have Rather on board: "Now that he is finally released from the ratings-driven and limited-depth confines of broadcast television, I am excited about the impact Dan can have on the future of news."

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[Blue_Tires]

1. it will be interesting to see how it turns out

[Greyhound]

2. Ditto

:kick:

[longship]

3. I'd like to see this on my cable box.

But it ain't there yet.

Damn!

[Raine]

4. Hurray for Dan

he's not going to go quietly and disappear...Go get em Dan!! :bounce:

[brmdp3123]

5. He'll make a fool out of himself.

[Hubert Flottz]

6. I don't think so, but I think he will make the GOP look like the fools

that they are!

[Dinger]

8. Q: Why Would Someone Say He'd Make A Fool Out Of Himself?

Just asking.:shrug:

[Jim Sagle]

21. Why ask a question when the answer is clear?

;)

[Dinger]

9. ?

disabled profile?. . . . whatever . . . .

[Name removed]

10. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Dinger]

14. Touche mtnester

:yourock:

[mtnester]

20. Apparently the barb hit home...

my response is gone.

Maybe the waaahmbulance came when I was not looking

:)

Oh, BTW, that was my first postever deleted...so in the tradition of my work place, when there is a "first", someone owes me ice cream. :party:

[DemonFighterLives]

16. I don't think as bad as this post

:hi:

[Dinger]

7. How Refreshing! Reminder: Watch Dan On Larry King Tonight!

It'll be awesome, and I'm damn sure he WON'T make a fool out of himself!

[Hubert Flottz]

11. I'd watched CBS news since I was a kid and I remember Dan's

reports from Vietnam every night. I quit watching CBS news when they bent to Karl Rove's will!

[Dinger]

12. Bless You Hubert!!!

:)

[reprobate]

15. The only two news shows I watch: Kieth Olberman and BBC world news.

Three. The only three news shows I watch: Kieth Olberman, BBC World News, and Nemocracy Now.

Four. Kieth Olberman, BBC World New, Democracy Now, and The Daily Show.

[Hubert Flottz]

19. I watch KO and the BBC too...

I believe the funny papers more than I'd believe the rest of the sold out media! I come to DU and the internets for the straight skinny!

[Liberal In Texas]

13. All right Mark Cuban & Dan Rather! This rocks!

This almost makes me want to get a sat. dish and pay about a hundred a month for service. Almost.

[DemonFighterLives]

17. Throw off that Necklace Dan

We need you now more than ever. There is a huge news deficit.
We don't need anymore mindless sycophants.

:applause: :woohoo:
:dem: and Rec

[Fermezlabush]

18. Good answer - but what's HDnet? Dies one need a HDTV & satellite to get

it? Or HDTV and cable?

[Toots]

22. I am still waiting for Current TV

I wish him well, even if his is a lonely voice, it is still a voice.