Another Dan Rather Reports Moment....
Since acquiring an HDTV a month ago tomorrow. I've seen probably 3 different offerings of "DAN RATHER REPORTS" on HDNet, and today's show inparticular seems incredibly unbiased in comparison to what I've seen him dish previously during his especially recent stint with CBS.
I had expected something very biased when I watched the last two shows, and I got something completely straight-forward as well as informative from his this program and tonite's show is no exception. Below are some notes from the segments provided as well as some of my admittedly opinionated thoughts on them.
Guiliani as President? I was AMAZED at the very honest and straight-forward review on Guiliani. I expected a lot more biased reportnot only from Rather, but also from 2 columnists that he had on and appreciated the no-nonsense, no fluff, here's what we think details that were very fair.
Outsourcing the Military: Oh we can only hope that specialty metals are 100% American melted metals for as long as I'm alive. That corporations are trying to get cheaper, more "cost-effective" solutions for materials that are used to create planes, guns, bombs and magnets that make our military machine "go" is one of the scariest things I've ever learned of and folks: it's something that is going on right underneath our noses. Will the "let's make a deal" think of future generations cripple us as a superpower to be left on the high-tech railroad tracks of future military conflicts? Only we can make the difference and this report was very well crafted and forthright. The message? We cannot afford for the security of the defense industry to be literally "watered down" with imports. The defense industrial base needs to not provide a fulcrum left on people that might potentially (as one Swiss company that created precision instruments for guided bombs at the start of the Iraqi War did) cease production leaving us with the country hanging by it's last bootstraps. A wonderfully informative report.
The US COAST GUARD: 34,000 people were resuced from Hurricane Katrina (oy, If ever there were a time for Dan Rather to tee off, this was it) and thankfully he provided what was an very evocative report in regard to the Coasties that are ready to fly 24/7. Ready to launch in 30 minutes, in a state called "Bravo-0", a ready crew of 4 is ever-ready to spring to life to make a difference in a variety of areas all across our nation. Again a very solid and heartfelt fact-filled report with no lean whatsoever. Hmmm...
In general I thought this was an excellent and very informative show on a variety of things including those serving in the Armed Forces of our nation and American Politics: Both breeding grounds for media bias as has been evidenced over the last year in my reports both here and in my LunchTimeGab blog entries.
What are your thoughts on this? Is it Dan earning a paycheck acording to the "man" or has he realized that there's more to than just taking what's provided, wrapping it in opinion and spin and offering it up for consumption? Tell me what you think in the comment section below!
I had expected something very biased when I watched the last two shows, and I got something completely straight-forward as well as informative from his this program and tonite's show is no exception. Below are some notes from the segments provided as well as some of my admittedly opinionated thoughts on them.
Guiliani as President? I was AMAZED at the very honest and straight-forward review on Guiliani. I expected a lot more biased reportnot only from Rather, but also from 2 columnists that he had on and appreciated the no-nonsense, no fluff, here's what we think details that were very fair.
Outsourcing the Military: Oh we can only hope that specialty metals are 100% American melted metals for as long as I'm alive. That corporations are trying to get cheaper, more "cost-effective" solutions for materials that are used to create planes, guns, bombs and magnets that make our military machine "go" is one of the scariest things I've ever learned of and folks: it's something that is going on right underneath our noses. Will the "let's make a deal" think of future generations cripple us as a superpower to be left on the high-tech railroad tracks of future military conflicts? Only we can make the difference and this report was very well crafted and forthright. The message? We cannot afford for the security of the defense industry to be literally "watered down" with imports. The defense industrial base needs to not provide a fulcrum left on people that might potentially (as one Swiss company that created precision instruments for guided bombs at the start of the Iraqi War did) cease production leaving us with the country hanging by it's last bootstraps. A wonderfully informative report.
The US COAST GUARD: 34,000 people were resuced from Hurricane Katrina (oy, If ever there were a time for Dan Rather to tee off, this was it) and thankfully he provided what was an very evocative report in regard to the Coasties that are ready to fly 24/7. Ready to launch in 30 minutes, in a state called "Bravo-0", a ready crew of 4 is ever-ready to spring to life to make a difference in a variety of areas all across our nation. Again a very solid and heartfelt fact-filled report with no lean whatsoever. Hmmm...
In general I thought this was an excellent and very informative show on a variety of things including those serving in the Armed Forces of our nation and American Politics: Both breeding grounds for media bias as has been evidenced over the last year in my reports both here and in my LunchTimeGab blog entries.
What are your thoughts on this? Is it Dan earning a paycheck acording to the "man" or has he realized that there's more to than just taking what's provided, wrapping it in opinion and spin and offering it up for consumption? Tell me what you think in the comment section below!
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