Kenneth's Frequency = 2

"Courage" had an unexpected encore on Dan Rather's farewell speech at the end of his final broadcast as CBS anchor:

We've shared a lot in the 24 years we've been meeting here each evening. And before I say good night this night, I need to say thank you. Thank you to the thousands of wonderful professionals of CBS News, past and present, with whom it's been my honor to work over these years. And a deeply felt thanks to all of you who have let us into your homes night after night. It has been a privilege and one never taken lightly.

Not long after I first came to the anchor chair, I briefly signed off using the word 'courage.' I want to return to it now, in a different way, to a nation still nursing a broken heart for what happened here in 2001, and especially to those who found themselves closest to the events of September 11th. To our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines in dangerous places. To those who have endured the tsunami, and to all who have suffered natural disasters and who must now find the will to rebuild. To the oppressed and to those whose lot it is to struggle in financial hardship or in failing health. To my fellow journalists in places where reporting the truth means risking all. And to each of you, courage. For the CBS Evening News, Dan Rather reporting. Good night.

Using 9/11 as a metaphor for retirement marks Rather as more than a little self-centered. And he appeared more sincere about the tsunami than about CBS management. Sill, Dan was more dignified than I expected, and the segment ended with CBS staffers flooding into the "fishbowl" surrounding Rather and clapping.

De mortuis nihil nisi bonum.

(via Media Research Center)

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Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs remarks on the background ("B roll") footage aired during Dan's exit:

I noticed two brief pieces of September 11 footage that have either never appeared before, or were shown once and then hidden behind the almost immediate media blackout on 9/11 images: 1) an appallingly clear and close shot of the second plane smashing into and through the south tower, and 2) another appallingly clear shot of the south tower’s collapse, in which you can see large segments of the building’s outer shell shearing off as the giant concrete slabs pancake downward.

How much footage is mainstream media hiding, in a misguided, arrogant attempt to protect America from itself?

I wondered about the amazing impact video, which I'd never seen. I assumed--wrongly--it surfaced after I began boycotting MSM news, shortly after 9/11.

Four questions: 1) Why suppress the video?; 2) Does FOX have it?; 3) If so, why hasn't FOX News aired it?; and 4) Has a copy been donated to the National Archives, to be put on the Internet as they did the Nixon tapes?