Thursday, November 25, 2004
PressThink: Dan Rather: Park Avenue Ordinary
Dan screwed-up, big time. He put CBS in a position where it could not do what it needed to do. The network killed an important story prior to the election because of the fall-out from Memogate. To some degree, it seemed that all of the media became somewhat defensive.
I will even grant that he had on some blinders. But it is entirely possible that he believed in the story and it wasn't just a political hack-job. To anyone but a partisan, there is strong evidence that Shrub shirked. Even some of the evidence knocking down the forgery had an element of support to it. There was the secretary that said she didn't type the memo but it was true.
As for the argument that it wasn't covered in 2000 so it was a late attempt at a hack-job, well, the press should have waded through the Rovian horseshit back then.
Hopefully, there will always be another day for the press and Rather to redeem themselves.
¶ 11/25/2004 09:58:00 PM
I will even grant that he had on some blinders. But it is entirely possible that he believed in the story and it wasn't just a political hack-job. To anyone but a partisan, there is strong evidence that Shrub shirked. Even some of the evidence knocking down the forgery had an element of support to it. There was the secretary that said she didn't type the memo but it was true.
As for the argument that it wasn't covered in 2000 so it was a late attempt at a hack-job, well, the press should have waded through the Rovian horseshit back then.
Hopefully, there will always be another day for the press and Rather to redeem themselves.
¶ 11/25/2004 09:58:00 PM
