Comments on: The State of TV News – Dan Rather Gets it Right

By: program

program — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:07:50 +0000

nice website
very informative

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:33:28 +0000

Excellent Mark.
Now, On another note, what\’s the chance you can start up a \”REAL\” 24 hr news tv station on cable? we used to have CNN until they decided to stop doing 24 hr news. It\’s now known as \”CNN Replays\”. Anyone working midshift who wants to unwind and watch news when the get home, get replays of AC360 Commentaries that have been shown over and over and over and over. Enuff is enough, i\’ve seen the Darfur video once, I don\’t need to see it 400 times. I\’ll tell you, when the start on a subject, they will wear it out. When they do a show about New Orleans (which they need to do), they will wear it out by doing a whole damn week on new orleans. Same thing goes with any other subject they start on, like, Paris Hilton.
Enuff already. There are small towns facing disasters, large fires that we don\’t know what cause them. People losing their jobs, company closings, and companies opening. If they do their research, they won\’t have to repeat the same thing over and over again. There have been a stretch of bank robberies here in arkansas, has anyone even heard about it? a fan got hit by a baseball at a game a few nights ago, and it killed him, did anyone mention that. MR. Cuban, please show these \”wannabe\” news stations what a real news station should be like. thanks for letting me vent

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:15:56 +0000

Dan Rather Reports is one of the best television news magazines at the present time and Dan Rather is getting better and better. I hope we will still see him for a long time on television.

By: Chase Chick

Chase Chick — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:29:22 +0000

Mark, I\'ve been a huge supporter with what you have done with the Mavs. I\'ve been watching them since they had Jason Kidd as a rookie. So you have been a bit of a hero to me for resurrecting this franchise.

Dan Rather, on the other hand, I am not so proud of. Anyone who knowingly passes off forged documents as the truth cannot be trusted. The only reason that lefty organization CBS fired him was because it was a national embarrassment.

If you are going to have a news program and pass it off as real then you must have someone trustworthy and unbiased sitting in the anchor chair. If this cannot be accomplished (i.e. Dan Rather) the next contingency would be to sit someone from the other side of the ideological spectrum beside him to counter his opinions. CNN used to have a show like that (Crossfire) and Fox News has a show like that (Hannity and Colmes) and it\'s great. The liberal and the conservative each get equal time and it\'s thrillingly entertaining listening to them battle it out on a nightly basis.

Try something like this Mark. Don\'t just plop down a liberal and alienate half your audience. This works in sport when you are only trying to appeal to a specialized audience (i.e. Mavs Fans!) but I think that the Fox News Channel gets such high ratings because their production is slick and because they give time to both sides.

I cut off my top tier HD programming when the Mavs aren\'t playing because there is nothing to watch. And I\'m certainly not going to watch long winded soliloquies with Dan Rather ranting about whatever liberal cause he can come up with. Give me something to watch and I\'ll come back. Until then I\'ll stick to FNC for my news in LOW definition.

By: DON STATHAM

DON STATHAM — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:36:52 +0000

DAN RATHER NEVER GOT ANYTHING RIGHT—HE IS A 100% LIBERAL PHONY–FROM A LONG TIME DALLAS MAVERICK, COWBOY AND RANGER FAN

By: joe

joe — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:16:44 +0000

Dan Rather used forged documents, that he knew were suspect as pointed out by his producer to gin up a story about George Bush one week before the 2004 election. That\'s why he was fired from CBS. He had it coming.

By: Taylor

Taylor — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:15:15 +0000

I don\’t even have an HDTV but I would purchase the package just to see this news program.. unfortunately it isn\’t offered on Comcast cable here in the Bay Area. Mark are we going to see HDnet on Comcast ever?

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:34:37 +0000

Mark, I was reading the Boston Globe this morning and came across this article

http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2007/06/19/rather_goes_his_own_way_with_no_commercial_breaks_and_few_viewers/

I\'ve written to you before about HDNET, I\'m a fan. I found the story somewhat demeaning to Mr Rather and your network.

Glad you came through the colonoscopy so well. Had one myself; they are no big deal.

By: Noah

Noah — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:25:41 +0000

Dan Rather is like a fine wine – he gets better with age.

Also, I\’m a fan of Matt Pinfield – Mark, youve done well in hiring some great TV personalities – kudos

By: Architect

Architect — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:58:40 +0000

I grew up watching Dan Rather, though it\’s taken the recent decline in gutsy journalism for me to truly appreciate him, his offbeat humor and his devotion to noBS professionalism .. nice to see him back in the ring.