Hewitt says Dan Rather had Axe to Grind and should've been Fired

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nydailynews.com/02-09-2006/news/gossip/story/389653p-330618c.html

'Minutes' man gets Rather curt

CBS legend Don Hewitt hasn't been shy about criticizing Dan Rather, but the grand old man of "60 Minutes" had stopped short of publicly recommending termination for the central figure in CBS News' painful 2004 Memogate flap.

Until yesterday.

"Should Dan Rather have been fired?" Time magazine managing editor Jim Kelly asked the 83-year-old Hewitt during a Court TV journalism panel at Michael's.

"Yes," Hewitt answered. He suggested that the 74-year-old Rather - a "60 Minutes" correspondent since stepping down last March as "Evening News" anchor - was politically motivated in airing a controversial pre-election report on President Bush's National Guard service.

"I have a built-in bias against reporters who have axes to grind," Hewitt said. "I think there are reporters that allow their own bias to encroach on their journalism, and that's a crime against journalism."

[BlueEyedSon]

1. The FACTS are biased, not the reporting!

[Kerrytravelers]

2. Then I can assume that hewitt also believes faux should be closed down,

along with msnbc and the other 24 hour "propaganda" cycle stations.

[jus_the_facts]

3. Prescott Bush (grandPoppy) owned controlling interest in CBS way back....

...sigh...whatever. x(

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Hannity etc. don't have axes to grind?

[BooScout]

5. Hewitt is a full of shit hypocrit...

Hewitt produced the Nixon/Kennedy Debate.....it wasn't an accident that Nixon came off the way he did.

He also handled the Clinton Interview after Gennifer FLowrs and helped the campaign bounce back.

He has never shied away from politics and leaning his stories towards a particular candidate he favored. To accuse Dan Rather of that is very much the pot calling the kettle black. :eyes:

[cybildisobedience]

6. I've heard Hewitt jump on the anti-Clinton bandwagan enough

to conclude that, if anything, he is extremely pro-GOP