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DCist (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
I'm waiting for the luncheon to begin , and while I have yet to spot the actors scheduled to be here, Shadow Sen. Michael Brown says former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather might be on his way here as well. Rather and Brown know each other through a mutual friend, and the veteran newsman is a proponent of D.C. voting rights, according to Brown. The shadow senator said he couldn't be sure Rather...
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PrairieStateBlue - Front Page (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
One of the highlights of my trip so far was a presentation given by Dan Rather. He was there to talk about the new film by Phil Donahue called "Body of War", but after saying a few words about the film and talking about what a "poor substitute" he was for Phil, he used the opportunity to talk about indepent media and the crisis facing our democracy because of the lack thereof. Below is a summary of...
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Pursuing Holiness (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Live from DNC: It’s Zombietime! (Day 3) Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Indeed.
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Pajamas Media (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Joe Biden arrives, celebrities swarm, and Zombie's right in the middle of the chaos! Plus: at a banquet with Danny Glover and at an event with Dan Rather!
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Rathergate.com (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Someone has to cover this nonsense. Then again, maybe not. Keefums doesn’t give Matthews a tingle up his leg. I am going to look for Dan Rather trial information, and this is an open thread.
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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
The Denver Post's attempts to dish on celebrities at the Democratic convention included this typical slice of Dan Rather, critic of spineless media: Dan Rather got a standing ovation in the Big Tent's DIGG stage on Tuesday after castigating the current structure of the media and the resulting weak news coverage. "Much of the press is rolling over and playing dead," the former CBS newsman said. "The...
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Steven Rubio's Online Life (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Dan Rather on the convention floor, 40 years ago today:
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Mercury Rising 鳯女 (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
…Dan Rather was in Denver talking about news served up straight, with no chaser. Of course, you didn’t hear about this unless you read Fire Dog Lake - or, now, Mercury Rising.
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Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Dan Rather's words of wisdom: "As one reporter, I think the best story here is who gives the big money to whom, expecting to get what. Now maybe the coverage does not for the most part center on this, because the larger news organizations -- of which I was part for a long time, it's important for you to understand that I do not except myself from the criticism inherent in some of the things I'm going...
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Northwest Progressive Institute (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
I was just interviewed by a woman from the New York Times and earlier Katie Couric was running around here with an entourage. Dan Rather spoke upstairs (see story below) but I did not leave this prime couch location, for it's great people watching and eavesdropping, as well as a place to plug in the laptop, drink Blind Roast Coffee (actually roasted by a blind man) and watch representatives of corporate...
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Little Green Footballs (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
(Zombie live-blogging from the Kos “Big Tent” in Denver.) I’m sitting in “The Big Tent,” a “space” co-sponsored by Daily Kos for “alternative media.” RIght now, as I type, Dan Rather is standing about 8 feet above my head, giving some longwinded diatribe about media ethics to a room half full of Kos supporters. 12:38 Despite the fact that this building/tent/“space” is supposed to be for the little...
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First Draft (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Highlights from Dan Rather's talk in the Big Tent, in the form of disconnected quotes: On the convention coverage and how "there's no news here": "Just because the parties lay out a script doesn't mean reporters have to follow that...
