Dan Rather : '..democracy cannot survive...with government interference in news'

[Stone Cold]

NEW YORK (AP) - Dan Rather said Thursday that the undue influence of the government and large corporations over newsrooms spurred his decision to file a $70 million lawsuit against CBS and its former parent company.

"Somebody, sometime has got to take a stand and say democracy cannot survive, much less thrive with the level of big corporate and big government interference and intimidation in news," he said on CNN's "Larry King Live."

In the suit, filed a day earlier in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, Rather claimed CBS and Viacom Inc. (VIAB (http://finance.myway.com/jsp/qt/short.jsp?symbol_search_text=VIAB)) used him as a "scapegoat" and intentionally botched the aftermath of a discredited story about President Bush's military service to curry favor with the White House. He was removed from his "CBS Evening News" post in March 2005.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070921/D8RPKMPO0.html
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Dan_Rather_talks_about_Bush_AWOL_0921.html (http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Dan_Rather_talks_about_Bush_AWOL_0921.html)

[Goober]

Dang....and all this time I thought he got fired for making up news.

Seriously people, The news won't survive unless they go back to their roots of "being honest, fair, accurate and balanced" instead of “Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.”

I'll agree that with the disappearnce of small news oranizations that are being swallowed up by the big corperations, most of the news that we get from the media is slanted in the direction of whoever owns them. That
s why I don't get my news from Fox, CBS, NBC, ABC or CNN. I just listen to you folks and youtube for the truth:rolleyes:

[FUS1ON]

LOL @ Goober

[SASQUATCH]

The news what I notice does at times see it in one direction. Expect to see more youtube because of what's been going around lately in the past 10 years.

Many people have no faith in the news like it use to be and that is why you will see more of it.