In this lesson I had the task of finding out who Dan Rather is, and how blogs affected him.
Firstly I searched Wikipedia, to find out who Dan Rather is. I found out that he used to work for CBS news. He was an upstanding, well respected reporter who worked at CBS for 44 years.
Rather made a very controversial documentary about George W Bush's Military career. This is where the bloggers come in. Many right wing bloggers who sided with President Bush investigated the documents used in the documentary and managed to prove they were forgeries. This, consequently lowered peoples respect of Dan Rather, and shortly after he resigned from CBS.
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You got the basics down well - and you obviously know how to link. It would be good to do a longer post now about the relationship between the mainstream media and bloggers based on this and the other things we discussed in class.
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