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Dan Rather addresses the National Conference for Media Reform in Minneapolis, on June 7, 2008.

He talks about freedom of the press, big media, and news coverage.
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10 responses // Dan Rather's speech on free press

  • 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.
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    beedee
  • Whats the frequency?
    "The frequency is courage".

    Just seeing how many people here will get that. If you don't, google "shooting war webcomic".
    Dmitri_Molotov
  • 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.
    thedirtman
  • 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
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    celestialceiling
  • The "Press" glossed over WWII, also. It's been glossing over wars since the inception of "Press".

    What's the big deal?
    J_Jammer
  • 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.
    mjsmith11
  • 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.
    Marilynn_Murray
  • 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.
    cibalin
  • http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rich-noyes/2008/01/25/20-y...
    You know, Dan Rather has always had a hard on for the Bush family. Here is another time when Dan failed to get one over on George W. Bush's father. He failed miserably that time too. His bogus false story with forged made up documents to try and insult our President, George W. Bush, was a complete failure too. CBS did the right thing by tossing him off of the air on the CBS Evening News show for making up a false story. I am sure t was not the first time Dan Rather did something like that either. CBS replaced him with a person with journalistic integrity, Katie Couric.
    mjsmith11
  • 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.
    Gephoria

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