Dan Rather: Is the Media Failing in America?

A San Francisco Chronicle Herb Caen Lecture featuring Dan Rather, who was anchor and managing editor for the CBS Evening News for 24 years, and now serves as a correspondent for 60 Minutes and hosts and produces long form programming examining major global topics and events for the Discovery Channel, will be in conversation with Orville Schelll, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism. Often referred to as "the hardest working man in broadcast journalism," Rather lives up to the description. His recently published seventh book, The American Dream, chronicles the stories of a wide cross-section of Americans, describing how they achieved their versions of the American dream. Sponsored by the...

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[PriaNorm]

The American media is great for all you ever wanted to know about Brittany Spears and Paris Hilton as far as REAL news its the worse there is other than N.Korea

[1cellofthemind]

I have many heroes and i like finding new ones. The greatest news caster in recent history explains that the Corps have too much power over his profession.

[ForexReviewsCentral]

it almost end .

[deepblue1776]

I hope we're not seeing the end of the true journalism here. That would be a devastating blow to people's right to know. Hats off to Dan Rather.

[HUTCHtopher]

hmm Berkely and the libral Gay Area media has failed America

[haypenny]

Fox isn't any more slanted to the right than the rest of the media, entertainment and pop culture is slanted to the left. But, I don't believe there is any news network that can rightfully claim the most balance, although a PEW study deemed Fox to be just that. Fox isn't so much fair & balanced as it IS the balance. It provided the balance that was so sorely needed in a near monopoly of left-of-center television news that often chose not to report some stories at all. Fox fills in those gaps.

[baigandine]

Fishing for Fox News videos on the internet, I find most of them have ridiculously biased titles such as Deceiver In Chief? Democrats' Last Hope? It's quite Orwellian.

[baigandine]

I disagree with this, and I am more or less socially liberal and economically conservative. Fox News is more egregiously slanted, with hosts oozing with contempt for Obama, yet when Bush comes on he's "our commander in chief" instead of simply the president, even when they're not talking about a war context.

[SterlingSadler]

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