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:: Saturday, September 11, 2004 ::
Wagons Uncircling?
An emailer to Instapundit who Reynolds describes as a 'journalist' suggests Rather's big-media buddies might not be as generous as the Boston Globe. Maybe it's in their best interest to drive a stake through Dracula's heart once and for all:
"I'm wondering if anyone is going to do to Dan Rather what they did to Stephen Glass of "Shattered Glass" fame- suggest that it's unlikely that this is the first time he "cooked" a story. Maybe rob him of his legacy, somewhat? If anyone wanted to do the fact-checking on old Rather stories that seemed to be "too good". . . .
I think it's kind of like lifeboat ethics at this point, for the MSM (print and network news). The little market-share pie that they're dividing is ever-shrinking as their readership ages and dies off, the young news junkies go for cable news and the internet, and now the last few haggard old survivors-desperate and hungry, now ganging up on the weakest guy (CBS) as the picture grows more bleak."
Well, given all the new alternatives for ad dollars, I'm sure ABC and NBC execs wouldn't shed any tears if CBS News were to vaporize. Dan's gotta be looking over his shoulder every five seconds right about now--it's coming at him from all directions--and rightly so.
(given the nature of the blogosphere, look for former CBS employees and collegues to come crawling out of the woodwork--thars gold in them-thar-book deals--as Dan Rather will tell you)
:: Max 10:23 PM [+] ::
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