Dan Rather's speech on free press

dan Rather is my hero, and injected a chance of hope into me once as Ron Paul did not so long ago. These suits are more patriotic than the troops overseas for exerting their opinions on democracy, press, and profit news.

God bless that man! I've known this man though TV journalism since I was a child. He still amazes me. The fact that he still gets it! WE cannot let leaders of this country or of major coperations to lead the construction of a forum of diversion to the public. Screw the air time if all shows want us to suck our thumbs and be fed pablum. Thank heaven for the internet.

Wrong Smith, what he said was true. George Bush was AWOL from the Texas National Guard. He refused as urine test and could no longer fly so he just quit showing up. Rather Knew the story was true and went with it. The files had been hidden so at that time they couldn't prove it. It has since been proved. Say something detrimental about Bush and you lose your reporting job or the the network will pay. It's a dirty job but Bush will do it.

Dan Rather is the guy who was fired from CBS News for making up a story about George W. Bush. He has no journalistic credibility. He was replaced by Katie Couric.

The "Press" glossed over WWII, also. It's been glossing over wars since the inception of "Press".

What's the big deal?

When a tough question is asked and not answered, when reputable people come before the public and say - wait a minute, something's not right here. The press has treated them like voices crying in the wilderness.

These views, while they might be given air time - become lone dots. Dots that journalists all too often do not dare connect, even if the connections are obvious,

Even if people on the internet, the unprinted press, are making these very same connections.

The mainstream press doesn't connect these dots because someone might then accuse them of editorializing, or of being the quote - "Liberal Media."
Or unpatriotic

But connecting these dots, making these disparate facts make sense - is a big part of what is supposed to be the real work of journalism.
(applause)

-Dan Rather

CurrentTV is great. Listening to Dan Rather I realize that I still miss Terry Glecoff. As far as I know Glecoff's rapidfire NWI was the last outpost of news broadcasting in America.

Whats the frequency?
"The frequency is courage".

Just seeing how many people here will get that. If you don't, google "shooting war webcomic".

I added a Net Neutrality tag, considering this seems to be the issue at the heart of his concluding remarks about preventing corporate or government interference in the free and open exchange of ideas online.