Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather called on President Barack Obama to form a White House commission to help save the press Tuesday night in an impassioned speech at the Aspen Institute.If the news business is dying it's because so much of it is biased hard left and the public knows it. There are many, many other sources of information out there and no one has to submit themselves to leftist propaganda on the network news if they don't want to.
“I personally encourage the president to establish a White House commission on public media,” the legendary newsman said.
Such a commission on media reform, Rather said, ought to make recommendations on saving journalism jobs and creating new business models to keep news organizations alive.
At stake, he argued, is the very survival of American democracy.
“A truly free and independent press is the red beating heart of democracy and freedom,” Rather said in an interview yesterday afternoon. “This is not something just for journalists to be concerned about, and the loss of jobs and the loss of newspapers, and the diminution of the American press’ traditional role of being the watchdog on power. This is something every citizen should be concerned about.”
Rather, who has been a working reporter for more than six decades and currently hosts “Dan Rather Reports” on HDNet, pointed out that there are precedents for such national commissions, which have been used to help other at-risk industries.
And more and more people don't want to.
Until the bias problem is fixed, the news business will continue to bleed.
Of course, if things continue to be tough for the media, they can always do what this reporter did and run a prostitution ring.
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Dan Rather ought to know that when you resort to fraud and far out leftist tactics in your reporting of wht should be news, you are flirting with being out of a job, and this is exactly the way it should be. Dan and his mob should be out of employment with no where to turn for help because they have brought all this upon themselves. There should be no Govt. Bailouts!
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