‘I’d Take Them Out With Sex’
Journalists Trivialize Howard Stern’s Advocacy of Rape as ‘Insensitivity’
FAIR Associate Sam Husseini Questions Dan Rather of CBS Evening News
Dan Rather: On my second trip to Belgrade I was there the night they turned off the lights. Remember, the first time we had a raid that shutdown the power, turned off the lights for most of Yugoslavia and that also meant turning off the water because the water needed the power to go. You […]
Pseudo-Science at CBS
The use of prime-time TV to sell the public a bill of goods hit a new low a little over a year ago, when, on May 15, 1992, CBS aired a two-hour primetime special called Ancient Secrets of the Bible. Produced by David W. Balsiger, the program claimed to present “startling and surprising evidence” to […]
Biased Afghan Coverage at CBS
Despite mainstream journalists’ claim of strict objectivity in covering the news, they make exceptions: Some stories are covered without even the pretense of neutrality. Dan Rather and CBS News, for example, adopted a cause throughout the 1980s–that of the Afghan mujahedeen. Sloppiness in the advocacy of that cause created a recent scandal for the network. […]
