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marcheese56 (Maria Cheeseman) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:56:16 +0000

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By: Eclectic Radical

Eclectic Radical — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:55:00 +0000

I think Rather’s liberalism plays an important part in his worldview as well. His era was the last ‘great’ era of liberal utopianism, early on in his career. He was part of the great rush of idealistic reporters who followed in Cronkite’s footsteps out of their patriotic and somewhat left-wing regard for their calling.

Naturally, as a journalist he would see through Fox and expect others to do so as well. However, I still believe there is a lot behind the notion that the liberals of his era thought a lot better of ‘ordinary people’ in general than we do now and that it is coloring his faith in viewers to see through the Fox veneer.

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By: Ron Chusid

Ron Chusid — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:35:53 +0000

I wonder if it isn’t so much being a “liberal of his generation” as being a journalist of his generation. While he has worked (and continues to work on cable) while Fox has been around, the bulk of his career was before this. I wonder if someone who practiced serious journalism for years before Fox and talk radio would be less likely to take the pseudo-journalism of Fox seriously as something people would believe. It is easy to dismiss their nonsense as something which no intelligent person would take seriously if not for the fact that so many people to believe what they hear on Fox.

By: Eclectic Radical

Eclectic Radical — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:26:04 +0000

I have a lot of respect for Dan Rather, but he is a liberal of his generation. As a liberal of his generation, he is inclined to overestimate people rather than underestimate them and assume that his own appreciation and understanding of what he sees is average and ‘believing himself ordinary, fails to recongize that the body politick is as extraordinary as himself.’

My view of the general public (left AND right) is perhaps more of the Bob Lassiter school of misanthropy than the Rather/Cronkite school of faith in the ordinary American. I very much wish I thought as well of people as Rather does, I’d be a lot happier.

More seriously, I agree with his views but I join in questioning whether he overestimates many Americans and their dependence on media programming.