HerTube | 07/03/2008 12:00 am

HerTube: Breaking News With Dan Rather

By The Staff at wowOwow.com

Apparently, it’s not all hard reporting and breaking stories. Sometimes it’s simply about what you’re wearing. Press the play button and see for yourself.

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…just a very silly story, people have to much time on their hands.

By karen spies on 07/03/2008 12:10 am

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So, in 20 minutes he earned …what?….$5,000 -$10,000… for adjusting his coat. I know there is some humor in there but I can’t find it.

By Josie Sullivan on 07/03/2008 12:38 am

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It’s late… I’m caddy. Time for the land of nod.

By Josie Sullivan on 07/03/2008 12:39 am

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See you in the morning Josie. And, I never really liked Dan. He always interrupted my mother’s stories when the other networks didn’t. Was the news only breaking on CBS? (or the stories he supposedly made up) He just liked his time on the air.

By Brooklyn Gal on 07/03/2008 12:56 am

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Oh, COME ON …. we all know it is pancake and grease lights …. mixed in with celebs stuffing down balls of fried dough on hot election nights. WHAT? ….. I may be ignorant but I am not stupid …. this story is both.

By Blue Circle Girl on 07/03/2008 12:45 am

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BCG—You are neither ignorant nor stupid. I am guessing some ignorant male brainwashed you into thinking that. My ex of 11 years whom I left on my 30th birthday tried to convince me I could not survive without him. I believed him for a short while, then realized I was thriving without him. You make very topical and spot-on comments. This site would be less without you.

By kermie b on 07/03/2008 4:39 pm

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If he didn’t look correct, then the network would have received hundreds if not thousands of phone calls criticizing the broadcast. If he even shivered once, the late night comics would have him as the butt of their jokes in their opening monologues. As for me, I think this was Dan’s evil twin. You know, that twin who purchased those bum documents to substantiate the phony story about the President’s National Guard service. I like the other twin much better.

By Bonnie Oliver on 07/03/2008 1:06 am

I have dial up internet and I haven’t figured out how to do sound and picture so I couldn’t watch. However I can read the posts and I liked Dan Rather. I understood he had to fall on the sword on the Bush fiasco because those people worked for him and he was ultimately responsible. As a member of the generation that had a great number of men in Vietnam, and I had a great number of friends who flew for Airforce, Navy and Marine Corps. The National Guard was considered a way to avoid the draft. It was just a fact and you had to know somebody to make it work.

By beverly linens on 07/03/2008 3:20 am

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Poor Dan. Where is he now?

By Bella Mia on 07/03/2008 8:10 am

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I spent a couple years as a newspaper reporter, and 20 in radio news, and the TV news always rankled me, because way too much attention was always placed upon the visual, as opposed to the audio. That’s why you’d have Dan Rather, at the top of CBS News, saying things like, “quote, unquote”. You cannot unquote anything once it’s out of someone’s mouth. The proper phrase is “quote, end quote”. But, my point is, the visual drives the news content too much on TV. A city could be having a major problem with infrastructure or the homeless - something important - but you have TV crews hyping a vacant-house fire, because it’s got a visual element. This type of thing.

By James the Game on 07/03/2008 8:56 am

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James, The expression that drives me nuts is ‘having said that.’

By No Way-No How -No McCain on 07/03/2008 2:05 pm

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How about the cliche, “Going forward”. Most of the time, it’s useless. For example, “Going forward, I plan to do such and such.” There is no need for “Going forward” in that sentence. Another one is stories that end with ” it remains under investigation”, as in, “the murder remains under investigation.” Of course it’s being investigated, or you would’ve said so otherwise right up front in the story. I often hear this line, “So and so was shot dead.” You mean, someone shot a dead body?! The correct phrase would be “shot to death”. I could go and on. Ha!

By James the Game on 07/04/2008 12:30 am

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While we’re not at it..it is a holiday…how ‘bout “refer back” and “continue on”..?..I certainly can’t hold myself up as a grammarian whiz-bang, but how do people get out of school speaking like this? The I-me thing makes me nuts…Molly Ivins said if you’re going to let god speak through you (about folks who say “god says”, etc..) at least see if he can get subject/verb agreement right… I’ll refer back to a couple of my all time faves: “This is my car and the Chevy is his truck and the Suburban is he’s and my’s vehikkle..” and..”Today the vegetable du jour is them little petits pois peas..”

By georgia fatwood on 07/04/2008 10:52 am

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Check out the Huffington Post today for a piece involving Monica Crowley accused of plagiarism. As far as this blather about Rather, it’s par for the course. Did anyone see the video––the long video––of Katie Couric deciding whether to leave her coat buttoned or unbuttoned. It’s enough to make one stop believing in Santa Claus, for gosh sakes!

By phyllis Doyle Pepe on 07/03/2008 10:28 am