Rather: "I'd Probably Just Sit Here And Drink" If I Had To Read CNN's News

Hmmmmmm, WOW!, Oh yeah!!, uhhaa, how cool! I agree...I completely agree, yeah,
Ohhhhhh, No, don't do that, neuroplasticity, ha ha ha

Dan handles himself well. WOW! I agree completely.

CNN news reporting has gotten progressively worse in the last few months. There is way too much sensational reporting. Sure, it's an important story when a few older men hold hundreds of women and children in a compound, abuse and rape and justify it with religion. To run the story over and over and over and pretend indignation, it demeans the story. I'm sick to death of stories about missing or murdered pretty blonde women. They are sad stories that they drag on for months. It's a sickness. Meanwhile, coverage of the real issues gets put on the back burner because those stories aren't "sexy".

and CNN Headline news in the morning with Robin Meade. enough. I don't give a shit that she went to a concert. I don't care that she went to a tropical island. It's all too fluffy for these ugly times.

how about a news service that gives the public what they need rather than what they want?

Gee Dan,Me and John Barleycorn were just commiserating about the state of the news.We decided that we should just shoot our TV sets and share that Hookah with the White horseman.After all it will help the Afghani people with thier record harvest! Isn't it a bitch when you get fired for a "forged " (reprinted) truth .Enjoy your fishin' we miss you. peas in and out

Mr Rather are yoiu still adamant that US Press must not let itself free from UK then rather you take the blame for sitting silent while [us youth that has activated itself parralel to rueter and bbc kids by now ] the mainland usa gets robbed of new movements and trends..................................................the roilling stones album cover theft by Andy Warhol from Lakeland Community College Design Class 1982/3 was the whole dillemma of Kings Crossing.........................

It is funny how both the Network and Cable have destroyed there base with the crap that they do. Once-upon -a-time I used to watch network news nightly, religiously, and then I switched to cable and now I have simply turned it off and traded it in for radio.

The promise with cable as you will remember is that it would be free of commercials. Now cable is about 50 % commercials. Network stuff is much the same. Anyway these guys did not want to do news anyway. Or at least do news without their spin.

The solution to all this viewing junk is to start mandating these corporate CEO's in making them watch their own stuff. Then and only then we might see some improvement.

CNN has become nothing more than a ratings whore.
They sell sex.
They sell scandal.
They race-bait.
Corporate enterprise hard at work.
It's amazing pundants like David Gergen are still working there.

That said, the statement is coming from Dan Rather and we seen some bones fly out his closet in the past.

CNN is nothing more than a ratings whore.
They sell sex.
They sell scandal.
They race-bait.
Corporate enterprise hard at work.

I'm amazed that some of the pundents like David Gergen haven't left.

That said, the comment does come from Dan Rather and we all know how many bones have flown out his closet.

CNN doesn't even gather or report news anymore. If CBS starts using CNN for its source of info, the CBS anchor would be reading celebrity gossip. Which would actually be quite suitable for Couric.

CNN is worse than Faux. At least Faux is obviously unfair and unbalanced. Cheers Dan!

Love you, Dan. CBS really gave you the shaft after all your years of good work. Couric isn't fit to shine your boots.

Ha! I was contemplating drinking if Dan Rather hadn't quit or asked to leave CBS.

www.andwearenotsaved.blogspot.com

What a coincidence, Dan. I have to drink to watch CNN. I'd have to shoot up if I was forced to read that crap.

The news game in America has changed dramatically for the worse! Ever since Fox News was able to bend the fragile minds of the middle class of America into them believing Fox News is "Fair and Balanced," the real news stopped happening in America. Its all about pretty shallow air heads reading the teleprompters and looking concerned! Fake news is what is selling today's advertisers.

Just when the hell did reports on American Idol, and the multitude of sucky reality shows become news?

CNN is to hurnalism what painting by numbers is to Art, and having seen the managers of the Networks in C-SPAN makes one wonder who they slept with the get their jobs.

I think he just dumping for the sake of dumping on CBS because I wonder if it was reported that MSNBC instead of CNN were doing the outsouring would he be on CNN saying the same thing.

He becomeing an opportunist

Speaking of things that need to dry up and blow away....

Dan's still got it. If you get a chance, be sure and catch his "Dan Rather Reports" on HDNet. Despite being dumped by CBS due to White House pressure, Dan's still doing great stuff. Probably no one sees it, but he's out there doing the work. I never miss it. He definitely deserves a larger audience for his work, not to mention a win in his suit against CBS. (Stick to 'em, Dan!)
We (I) desperately need Dan Rather calling the 2008 president race. It would be so much more insightful, honest, and entertaining. My all-time favorite Ratherism: "This race is tighter than a too-tight bathing suit on a too-long ride home from the beach!"

I admire Mr Rather,with one reservation,he chickened out with the Bush story, they had the facts and they were true but he backed off, and left the director of the show holding the bag, she was blamed and fired , read her book ,makes lots of sense and seems to be telling the truth. It is common knowledge that the Bush story was true, why he did not have the spine to stick it out is beyond my comprehension, maybe , he will tell us why some day. As for reading CNN or Msnbc junk, cannot blame him.

I agree with Dan Rather, one of the great investigative reporters. News started to deteriorate after the departure of Aaron Brown. CNN decided to go tabloid with stories about sensational murder cases, car chases, conflagrations, sound bites and bad weather.

I watch Jim Lehrer on PBS, Bill Moyers on PBS and Dan Rather doing some great investigative reporting on HDNET.

I agree with Dan Rather, one of the great investigative reporters. News at CNN started to deteriorate after the departure of Aaron Brown. CNN decided to go tabloid, concentrating on car chases, sensational murder cases, conflagrations, bad weather and sound bites.

I watch Jim Lehrer on PBS, Bill Moyers on PBS and Dan Rather doing some great investigative reporting on HD-NET.

I can"t say I"ve agreed with every single thing Dan Rather has ever done. But I can say that I always respected him as a genuine journalist concerned with provided a balanced story based upon verified facts. Bias probably got in the way of the truth sometimes like it would for any of us if we were truly objective and honest about it. Sadly, there are not enough guys like Rather around any more. I recently beefed up my cable package to get the entire suite of news services and find myself having to cut through the BS of showmanship and sensationalism more concerned with trying to score ratings than provide good quality journalism. It"s sad, somewhat scary and I think we"re all worse off than many of us think for it. If there has been good quality journalism consistently provided for this US election by a network, I"ve yet to see it.

i wish for once Rather would put his foot in his mouth for something worthwhile.

You and me both, Dan.

I miss Dan Rather. He is a reporter not like the current readers of news.