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Dan Rather gets mad

m. anthony bro

02:50 / 17.05.02

US TV anchor blasts US media, including himself.

sleazenation

11:37 / 17.05.02

But will he do anything about it? Can he?
Especially in a political climate when Vice-President Dick Cheney answers all critics of the current administration saying that those comments were "thoroughly irresponsible and totally unworthy of national leaders in a time of war"... scarey stuff

Meanwhile Tony Blair IS being asked the tough questions, by Jeremy Paaxman no less, but unfortunately the interview merely revealed what we already knew Britain might not agree whole heartedly with some of the rhetoric coming from the whitehouse, but its going to go along with it.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

13:25 / 17.05.02

What 'it'?

Did someone come along and make a consensus while I was out?

sleazenation

13:52 / 17.05.02

well 'it' would certainly seem to be 'what dan rather perceives as the unwillingness on the part of broadcasters and journalists in the US to ask what he refers to as "the hard questions" in these post september 11 days'. Where did this need for consensus come in?

invisible_al

15:08 / 17.05.02

Saw this on Newsnight and 'Milatainment' gives me the shivers. Chris Morris and the Brass Eye team should probably call it a day as satire is impossible now.
Ah yes watch up-beat visuals of jets taking off, bombs going off, guns blazing, flags flying to a rock soundtrack on VH-1. Its Miliporn isn't it? In the same genre as a tom clancy novel.
Hmm been seeing a lot of comments here and there about Americans looking to places like the bbc website and other foreign sites for decent news coverage as all they get at the mo is flag flying. But if the pendulum swings one way it can swing back, look at the shitstorm kicking off today *crosses fingers*.

Cherry Bomb

14:08 / 18.05.02

At least Dan Rather said something - too bad he had to say it in a British news venue and not in an American one. It might then have more of an impact on the people the coverage is affecting.

The quote sleaze used is Dick Cheney's response to congressional criticism AND questions over the recent revelation that the Bush administration had received reports about serious terrorist threats several months before 911. Revelations, mind you, that the Bush administration neglected to mention at all until CBS News (where Dan Rather works) reported it earlier this week.

I must admit, when I first arrived in the UK I was surprised at the difference in coverage of Operation Anaconda and the Bush administration itself in the UK papers as opposed to the US. Part of that of course was the fact that American papers are much more U.S.-centric (is that a word)? and there was a more of a European perspective but it seemed much more objective and critical to me.

shirtless, beepers and suntans

22:52 / 18.05.02

harsh words from an android.

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