First, thank you for using your time and energies to engage the disinformation war. The legacy and name you had already built has a significant impact.
I am in East Texas - an area that has all but fallen to the disinformation age and leadership. I have constantly looked for tools to engage family and friends on the precipice - most often being pulled towards the abyss by community, friends, AND family. The most effective tool I have found has been News and Guts on FB. I repost on my timeline. More importantly family members who are questioning their sanity, as their thoughts were innundated by their culture have been reading and following along. Friends and colleagues have also found this work to be a lifeline.
Having said this, you have been a lifeline for me as well. My world narrowed significantly this year. I had just started teaching part-time as a University instructor when the pandemic hit. In the last years I had stuggled with lung issues, followed by a late in life pregnancy that threw our finances, my next chapter, and health into further disarray. We buried my best friend days before everything shut down, and my extended family hardly speaks because of their politics.
So, being pretty much shut in with a toddler and my college age son (told you it is a late in life pregnancy) while my husband works three jobs in the education field, I have been cautious not to add to the overall sense of hopelessness this year brought with it.
Your writing, your truth telling, and your consistent calm have made News and Guts a particularly useful outlet to stay informed AND sane - even when the danger was palpable in our community.
I hope to join you in this forum soon. I'll look at the subscription cost and aee how to budget that. I do hope you will continue to keep your FB presence real and robust.
While, I work to disseminate solid jouralism, I have neither the name recognition or legacy to back me up. I can however, convince people to listen to you. ☺
I think the space between climate change and the fairness doctrine is not great. If we can get the fairness doctrine back in some sort of real fairness, we wouldn't have all the alternative "facts" screwing up our thinking. Then....when we can all get real facts, we can tackle climate change (as soon as we get our vaccines.)
I grew up listening to your nightly reports on TV. As a child (during the 70's and 80's) I had no interest in what was going on with the world but it never failed that if I came anywhere near the living room and heard your voice, I would always change my direction and end up in front of the TV to hear what you had to say. It was, and still is today, something about the sound of your voice that calls to something deep within me. I don't know if I can truly explain it, but the timber of your voice is like a beacon that calls to me to stop and to listen. A voice chock full of passion for the undeniable truth, of unfailing trust, of a moral compass always pointing north, and the reasoning for it all would be there each night just waiting for me to hear so I would stop, listen, and learn about the world around me. Even as an adult too busy to sit down and watch the news, if I happened to hear your voice I was always compelled to stop and listen. In recent years, I have watched your show Interviews with Dan Rather and love it. Now here we are on a new day, in a new year, and you have found yet another platform to reach out to your fellow Americans. I am here. As I read these posts, for some reason my brain automatically does so in your voice. I find that kind of funny. Never knew you lived in my head. LOL In seriousness Mr. Rather, thank you for being that beacon of truth and trust throughout my life. May you be blessed with many more years of chasing that rainbow and willingly sharing it with all of your fellow Americans.
Mr Rather, I’m happy to subscribe & look forward to your newsletters. Your Twitter account has helped me stay sane & have a few laughs over the last four years. (I’m not on Twitter but I read your account every day. I also listened to your last book & sent it as Christmas presents last month. It gave me hope when I thought hope was lost.) I wish you the best with this new endeavor. ~Kasumii
I thought you were moving to Sesame Street 😂. But this will be good too! I have treasured so many of your FB posts over the last several years...no matter how long they are! Looking forward to joining you on your new journey.
I was so hoping that maybe you'd be hosting a new version of The Muppet Show! But this is good too. Thanks for being a steady voice in the chaos.
I hope you have discovered "Letters From an American" by Heather Cox Richardson. She connects news to history and has seen it all before.
Me: “Dan Rather is starting a newsletter. I’m not sure what it will be about exactly but ....”
Husband: “Sign up. Pay for it.”
Anything you have to say, we’re listening!
First, thank you for using your time and energies to engage the disinformation war. The legacy and name you had already built has a significant impact.
I am in East Texas - an area that has all but fallen to the disinformation age and leadership. I have constantly looked for tools to engage family and friends on the precipice - most often being pulled towards the abyss by community, friends, AND family. The most effective tool I have found has been News and Guts on FB. I repost on my timeline. More importantly family members who are questioning their sanity, as their thoughts were innundated by their culture have been reading and following along. Friends and colleagues have also found this work to be a lifeline.
Having said this, you have been a lifeline for me as well. My world narrowed significantly this year. I had just started teaching part-time as a University instructor when the pandemic hit. In the last years I had stuggled with lung issues, followed by a late in life pregnancy that threw our finances, my next chapter, and health into further disarray. We buried my best friend days before everything shut down, and my extended family hardly speaks because of their politics.
So, being pretty much shut in with a toddler and my college age son (told you it is a late in life pregnancy) while my husband works three jobs in the education field, I have been cautious not to add to the overall sense of hopelessness this year brought with it.
Your writing, your truth telling, and your consistent calm have made News and Guts a particularly useful outlet to stay informed AND sane - even when the danger was palpable in our community.
I hope to join you in this forum soon. I'll look at the subscription cost and aee how to budget that. I do hope you will continue to keep your FB presence real and robust.
While, I work to disseminate solid jouralism, I have neither the name recognition or legacy to back me up. I can however, convince people to listen to you. ☺
You had me at Muppets.
I think the space between climate change and the fairness doctrine is not great. If we can get the fairness doctrine back in some sort of real fairness, we wouldn't have all the alternative "facts" screwing up our thinking. Then....when we can all get real facts, we can tackle climate change (as soon as we get our vaccines.)
Mr. Rather,
I grew up listening to your nightly reports on TV. As a child (during the 70's and 80's) I had no interest in what was going on with the world but it never failed that if I came anywhere near the living room and heard your voice, I would always change my direction and end up in front of the TV to hear what you had to say. It was, and still is today, something about the sound of your voice that calls to something deep within me. I don't know if I can truly explain it, but the timber of your voice is like a beacon that calls to me to stop and to listen. A voice chock full of passion for the undeniable truth, of unfailing trust, of a moral compass always pointing north, and the reasoning for it all would be there each night just waiting for me to hear so I would stop, listen, and learn about the world around me. Even as an adult too busy to sit down and watch the news, if I happened to hear your voice I was always compelled to stop and listen. In recent years, I have watched your show Interviews with Dan Rather and love it. Now here we are on a new day, in a new year, and you have found yet another platform to reach out to your fellow Americans. I am here. As I read these posts, for some reason my brain automatically does so in your voice. I find that kind of funny. Never knew you lived in my head. LOL In seriousness Mr. Rather, thank you for being that beacon of truth and trust throughout my life. May you be blessed with many more years of chasing that rainbow and willingly sharing it with all of your fellow Americans.
Mr Rather, I’m happy to subscribe & look forward to your newsletters. Your Twitter account has helped me stay sane & have a few laughs over the last four years. (I’m not on Twitter but I read your account every day. I also listened to your last book & sent it as Christmas presents last month. It gave me hope when I thought hope was lost.) I wish you the best with this new endeavor. ~Kasumii
I’m already benefitting from signing up as I’ve just discovered Heather Cox Richardson through the comments here
HCR’s newsletter is what has kept me sane during the past crazy year.
With you and Heather Cox Richardson I feel I will be able to expand my horizons. Thank you
Haven't gone steady in a long time.....but this is Dan Rather and I said yes to Steady.
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🙏🏽 I appreciate you and am happy to be going #steady 😉.
I thought you were moving to Sesame Street 😂. But this will be good too! I have treasured so many of your FB posts over the last several years...no matter how long they are! Looking forward to joining you on your new journey.
So happy to support your venture. Your voice was a clarion in the past 4 years I look forward to the wisdom you'll provide going forward!
You are in the pantheon of my Heroes