Which anchor will say I can no longer support this war like Walter and

[vetwife]

be heard...Who is trusted enough in this Media tied to this Bush bunch has the credibility to come out and say as Walter Cronkite during The Vietnam War I can no longer support this occupation and the Freepers would listen to?





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[NMDemDist2]

1. let Tom Brokaw do it, he's retiring after the election anyway

he has nothing to lose.

[newsguyatl]

10. nope, actually

he just signed through 2014, story out earlier today.

[NMDemDist2]

12. poor Brian Williams eom

[DAGDA56]

2. Good question...I think it would have to be Tom B. of the big three...

...Rather would like to, but I don't think he has the guts (but he might be crazy enough). Jennings knows every freeper will write him off as that Canadian.

[democracyindanger]

3. No one

Sadly. Because there is no anchor today that even comes close to Cronkite. Not Brokaw, not Jennings and certainly not Dan 'Let's Jump on the Jingo Train' Rather.

The US press is an embarassment. Has been for about a decade now.

[EstimatedProphet]

4. No one

Oh, there might be an anchor that will stand up for what's right, but once they do, the Freepers will reject them automatically. these are people that will support Bush at all costs. If Bush personally came to their house, tied them up, and murdered their whole family in front of them, Freepers would talk about how heroically Bush handled the gun.
We had a few complete wackjobs like Freepers in the 60's and 70's (think John Birch Society) but they were regarded by the public as wackjobs then, not as carrying respectable views, because the press didn't try to lend import to what they said and let their words speak for them. It's sickening that the free press concept, which is meant to expose these people for what they are, is now used to promote them.

[Yupster]

5. Wouldn't matter

The number of people who watch the nightly news is so much smaller than it used to be and also people assume and are used to journalists being partisan today. If an anchor came out as such, he would just be shrugged off as another partisan journalist.

[squidbro]

6. No one I'm afraid

I'm not exactly sure to be honest. I stopped watching the news anchors a long time ago. They all sold out.

I realize that advertising dollars are important in running a business, but the news anchors should be above that and they are not.

Why else do they shy away from the huge problems facing our society and world?

Where are the scathing reports of the mad cow scandal. Where are the reports of the potential effects that global warming poses. How about the scandal of American health care with the pharmaceutical manufacturers, insurance industry, trial lawyers, hospitals, unethical physician practices all trying to extract as much profit as they can from the public? It doesn't get us anywhere as the U.S. still has just about the lowest life expectancy in the developed world for a much, much higher cost.

CBS should replace Dan Rather with Bill Moyer. I might just begin watching the evening news again.

As it is, there isn't any anchor who holds America's trust like Murrow, and Cronkite did.

Besides, the freepers would rather watch faux news anyway and wouldn't even hear the voice of a renowned anchor if one existed.

[vetwife]

7. Wish someone like Freeper O'Reilly or Rush..they Trust those morans

Never..Would never happen..But I can dream......The Koolaid drinkers
will go down grovling at The Resident's feet. I too think Old Tom would have to do it. If those other two idiots did it, I would laugh myself hysterical ! After all we all know O'Reilly is looking out for us ! ROFLMAO

[TheDebbieDee]

8. Hello, VetWife. Nice to see you over here..........

at DU. I would have thought I'd have noticed your name before you made 470+ posts, but it's good to have you on board here.

I'll look forward to reading your posts on this site.

[vetwife]

17. Good to be here The Deb !

One and the same.
E mail me sometimes ! Good seeing you !

[Cleita]

9. Dan Rather might.

I'll bet on it.

[demgrrrll]

11. Per Atrios Tucker Carlson made a strong statement that he

was wrong to support the war. I think he used the term
disaster. Not an anchor but it is a start.

[Cleita]

13. Remember Dan was the guy who pissed Daddy Bush off

by asking him if he knew anything about Iran-Contra, when he was campaigning to replace Reagan? Daddy Bush had such a snit about it, we shooda known back then that the media was bought. Dan was slapped down to size after that, but he does get his zings in. Remember it was the Reagan adminstration that instituted the mantra that the President shouldn't be criticized because it was disrespectful, unless it was Clinton, of course.

[DAGDA56]

14. I remember that...and didn't the incident happen shortly after...

...where Rather got mugged by some maniac shouting "What's the frequency, Kenneth?"?

[Cleita]

15. Yes, yes and we have to dig up this stuff!

I think journalists (or us if they don't do it) should start revisiting Daddy-ohs Vice Presidency and one term administration. It may be easier to dig out the bodies, no one is hanging over, than the present well guarded bodies.

[Poiuyt]

16. Brokaw, though I doubt that he'd do it

As the author of "The Greatest Generation," he has certain credibility with that group.

[theboss]

18. Do any of them support it now?

Regardless, it's not the same era. 1/3 of the country got their news from Cronkite. If Dan Rather does anything, the only people who see it are some senior citizens.

[trof]

19. Dobbs, Moyers, Lehrer