Posted on 10/28/2014 6:51:14 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
CBS honchos stuck their heads in the sand Monday rather than address a former veteran reporter’s memoir that revealed how the network routinely canned stories it perceived as anti-Obama.
Everyone from network CEO Les Moonves to “Evening News’’ anchor Scott Pelley to former “Evening News’’ Executive Producer Patricia Shevlin ignored repeated phone calls and e-mails from The Post seeking comment on the bombshell claim by ex-CBS investigative ace Sharyl Attkisson.
A secretary for David Rhodes, president of CBS News, immediately volleyed a Post reporter’s phone call to company spokeswoman Sonya McNail. Before the reporter could even ask a question, McNair curtly said, “We decline to comment. Thank you. Bye.”
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In 2016. If Hillary doesn't win.
American “news media” = Leni Riefenstahl and Joseph Goebbels lovechild.
I hope Walter Cronkite rots in hell. There are former high school friends of mine who are six feet under because of the way Walter Cronkite spun the mostly successful Tet offensive into a defeat and convinced the NVA to fight on.
Absolutely no one should be surprised by this in our day and age.
Not after the Dan Rather Typewritergate episode.
Not after Don Hewitt made the rounds of Upper East Side cocktail parties saying his mea culpas for getting Reagan elected for running too many 60 Minutes stories about Welfare Queens coming to pick up their check in a Cadillac.
“Commenting on this issue would be bad for 0bama” - CBS (Constant/Continuous/Contemptible/Corrupt/Complete/etc. BS)
Excellent!
I remember right after BO seized power, watching a CBS commercial for one of their specials.....and it featured at the end of the commercial a “CBS EYE” logo that had been altered to look kind of like BO’s stupid logo, and a giant Stevie Wonder head next to it saying “Yes we can!”
Made me sick to my stomach.
I am convinced the execs and staff of networks and their news divisions are devotees of extreme liberalism. Eager to cover Obama by any means possible.
“Remember, this is the network that manufactured a fake National Guard memo in order to influence a presidential election.”
No they didn’t. It would be nice if that’s all it was, but it’s much worse.
At the time CBS put out the fake docs on Bush, the Bush adm was releasing the al Qaeda docs recovered in Afghanistan.
CBS got the issue of forgery front and center in the publics mind with the forged docs on Bush and left wing operatives immediately began making claims you couldn’t trust what was in the al Qaeda docs recovered in Afghanistan because Bush was forging the docs.
There is one doc in particular that is very damaging to the dems and the news media and that is doc# AFGP-2002-600321 in what was the CTC at West Point’s Harmony Database.
In the doc OBL makes the statement the media is 90% of the preparation for the battle, in other words our lefty friends and their allies in the MSM have been orchestrating news stories as part of the preparation for the terrorist attacks.
What’s in that doc is the root of the “spontaneous” lie with Benghazi, there are no preparations for the attacks they’re “spontaneous”.
The forged docs on Bush was intended as a cover up of the dems, leftist and the allies in the MSM collaborating with terrorist.
I do love the graphics you dig up.
lap dogs all
1964: Within hours of Barry Goldwater's securing the Republican presidential nomination, CBS (don't recall the name of the reporter) went on the air and completely fabricated a story about neo-Nazis in Europe celebrating Goldwater's success. The idea, of course, was to imply that Goldwater was a neo-Nazi. The cruel irony was that Goldwater would be targeted for extermination if the Nazis had their way because his father was Jewish.
2004: During the height of the presidential campaign, CBS' Dan Rather presented in prime time a totally fabricated story about President George W. Bush allegedly going AWOL from the National Guard during the time he served there about 30 years previously.
So in addition to censoring real news that reflects badly on the Obama administration, CBS has no qualms about making up "news" that slanders Republicans. And their richly deserved lack of trust is why CBS News Nielsen ratings have been plummeting for decades.
Really??
Who at CBS did that?
Do you have a link that says the network did that?
I don’t do much digging these days.
I’ve reached something of a critical mass. People find and send me things.
I love FR.
I propose an experiment. Who is CBS’s smallest advertiser? Let’s put him out of business.
Time for a conservative campaign and boycott. YouTube, Twitter, letter writing, the works. Let’s se how long it takes for that advertiser to pull his ads.
How we protected Chik FilA, let’s use the same gusto to destroy an advertiser.
Anyone know who that advertiser is?
Dan Rather did that as an agent and employee of CBS in the course of his duties on behalf of CBS. Since CBS only acts through its agents and employoees then CBS did that. Just do a google search for all the details.
Perhaps you might consider obtaining that CTC document (if you don’t already have it) and posting it either to this thread or as its own thread?
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