Armstrong Williams RETURNS, Dan Rather steps down, tarnished

[mopaul]

armstrong williams, the first whore discovered in the white house press corps, will return to radio next week, untarnished, unbesmirched, unrepentant, untouched, unimpeachable, unquestionable, unprosecuted, unindicted, unpunished, uncovered, unsullied, unreformed, unremorseful, unshameful, and unphased.

while dan rather steps down under a 'cloud of scandal' for a minor slip up when he tried too many times to tell the truth, a once beloved journalistic concept.

sometimes it looks like they are winning.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. Yo mopaul, I fear the psychos may use your sig in a non-satirical fashion.

:scared:

[Cooley Hurd]

2. It's a fucking SHAME the way Rather is being treated...

...only days before his retirement from the anchor desk. Cronkite's slams yesterday on Leslie Blitzer's 5pm shitfest were just awful!

Paging Edward R Murrow and Eric Sevareid... Uncle Walter's overdue for a drink with you...

[rwork]

3. Didn't the investigators

come to the conclusion that they couldn't tell if the documents were forgeries or not?We all no what was said on the documents was true.That is what is important.bush* said him self, I fixed it up with the National Guard to leave early in a time of war.I am sure our troops in Iraq would like to leave early.But they are doing 2 and 3 tours.

[peekaloo]

9. yep. No one mentions the secretary who confirmed the

content, if not the actual memo(s), either.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. I can't stand the idea. WWRL is pairing AW with Sam Greenfield

who has successfully done his show by himself. Not only will the presence of AW put a damper on Sam's ability to express the progressive point of view, but it still hasn't been established that AW is free of taint of being the spokesperson for the White House.

I wish that I could shake the feeling that WWRL hired AW for two particular reasons:
1. He's African-American and that's the main demographic of the station, and
2. He's controversial and therefore will attract attention and listeners (albeit probably temporarily) to the station.

WWRL already has a morning show with two opposing viewpoints with Professor Karen Hunter and Steve Malzberg. It's not like the station has a lopsided viewpoint that needed dilution.

[Skidmore]

5. The thing is that

neither CBS nor Rather should have caved. Rather should have let his apology stand and CBS should have stood by him. Shoot, how many of these RW so-called journalists and news readers still sit in their jobs even after blatantly false reports with no retractions?

[Cooley Hurd]

6. Like Brit Hume?

That piece of shit NEVER apologized for lying about FDR's intentions for Social Security - even though FDR's grandson demanded it.

[Skidmore]

7. Yip. Rather and CBS bought their own pain.

[MadHound]

8. Well that's assuming that CBS still practiced journalism,

And has integrity. It doesn't, it is simply another corporate shill for the two party/same corporate master system of government. This has been the game plan for the past quarter century, it is just since the '96 Telecom Act that it has become readily apparent to the discerning viewer that we're dealing with paid corporate propagandists. Right now the major networks are purging their ranks of the old guard journalists, the ones like Rather and Brokaw who actually had the morals and courage to tell the truth and report the news. Now that they're gone, expect the news to truly become a parody of itself.

[iconoclastNYC]

10. Draft Bill Moyer, Rather, and Cronkite! Self produce on the Internet!!

They are all millionaires. They shoudl start an independant show they release on the internet. Really hard hitting stuff. These people have to know how fucked the TV Media is, advertisers and corporate tycons filter what we see on the TV news.

They have the reputation to really bring independant media into the mainstream.

We should have a draft "rather/moyer/cronkite" movement.

[spanone]

11. Mainstream media will report it just that way, I'm sure.

[Snivi Yllom]

12. one media whore leaves, one comes back

it's a wash