My email to Dan Rather

[DancingBear]

Dear Mr. Rather,

I can remember. It is difficult, in lieu of what passes for journalistic integrity these days, but I can remember. Network news, I believe it was called. Ah yes, that’s it – network news.

You took the baton from the master, and for lo these many years have held it aloft. Now, amongst partisan hacks and thinly disguised republican campaign commercials riding roughshod over fair and balanced, you’ll need once again to show us old folks why you care, and show the young ones why it matters.

The truly free press, what is left of it, is under attack as never before. You hold damning evidence, yet no one asks our President the questions that previous news people would latch on to like rabid dogs. Instead, today, we have a press corps that willingly goes along with the “be good or no more cookies” mantra that the White House puts forth. I scream, you scream, but if I scream louder than I must be smarter. As Webster gets ready to redefine journalism as “something where facts matter little, but opinion matters most” I, and millions of others, look to you to tell him he’s wrong.

Mr. Rather, show us all again what real investigative news is truly about. Continue to ask the questions that need to be asked, and disregard the orchestrated smear campaign that started the minute you began to check the emperor’s clothes. The truth is there, disguised by those who do not wish to see. We know it’s there – hiding under superscripts and Times New Roman fonts and whatever else can be trotted out to kill the messenger. Turn the rocks over, peer in the cracks, and find it. It truly is that important.

I am honored to watch you, for I know now that despite what is happening to your brethren, you remember. Thank you.

Sincerely,

xxx
xxxx

[dbt]

1. "Are you running for something, Mr. Rather?"

"No, Mr. President. Are you?"

REMEMBER, Dan?

Remember?

:argh:
dbt

[SonofMass]

5. He has always been the most objective reporter out there!

[AuntPatsy]

2. Definately Hard Hitting, I loved it, Go DU! Democracy

will prevail....

[Stew225]

3. Rather has been the only network anchor

that I've watched over the years. He is bound to finish his career with historic class.

[ArkDem]

4. That letter is like butter. I'm getting verklempt.

Keep up the good work!

[StayOutTheBushes]

6. I scream, you scream, we all scream for......

[Pallas180]

7. Support Dan Rather EMAIL " [e-mail]" & be sure to put

something positive in the subject matter, like " Dan is a hero"

cause they're getting so much hate mail that they're not reading all... but they seem to be reading that and really appreciative - several of us have gotten replies...