Posted on 09/11/2004 8:31:00 AM PDT by Pitiricus
Gotta love the circular self-referencing media. No experts or evidence needed--"If Rather and Couric said it then it must be true!"
I'm frankly amazed at the origional story to begin with. I guess I couldn't be president becasue I had to sit in a corner with a dunce cap on in kindergarden.
The Democrats are desperately grasping at anything they can get.
mark steyn is on hugh hewitt's first hour each week.
(i think tuesday, but maybe monday or wednesday)
That was rather's big argument yesterday! "I know the story is true." Case closed.
The arrogance is staggering. It even extends to his inability to recognize how foolish he looks in that safari jacket.
'I'm wondering if this is actionable from a legal standpoint.
It's my sense that CBS affiliates may be subject to stiff fines for violating FCC regulations prohibiting false or deceptive radio transmissions. We need to encourage our congress critters to raise a clamor calling for proper enforcement of FCC regulations in this matter. This is way more serious than JJ's wardrobe malfunction.
Also I think that each member of the electorate has cause against CBS and ViaComm for the attempted fraud and election tampering that the Sixty Minutes show was.
Freedom of speech allows people to tell lies to advance their politics but the electronic media is held to a higher standard. Broadcasters are licensed to operate "in the public interest" using the public resource of the RF spectrum.'
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Should the FCC choose to investigate this, they would have to investigate charges from both sides, the dems would insist on that...
so they should investigate Rathergate AND the Swifties. Sounds okay to me......
"Should the FCC choose to investigate this, they would have to investigate charges from both sides, the dems would insist on that...
so they should investigate Rathergate AND the Swifties. Sounds okay to me......"
I don't believe that anything the Swifties has done is subject to FCC regulations. Their paid ads, true or false, are covered by the first amendment. Kerry could file a libel suit if he thought he could win.
The television network and affiliate are in violation of FCC regulations if they are responsible for a broadcast transmission with false or deceptive content.
Thanks for the 60 Minutes II link. This is my modest effort:
Dear Sirs,
I am writing to protest the blatant partisanship shown by Dan Rather and CBS in its recent trashing of our President with documents that have been shown at many levels to be fake. Furthermore, you have ignored stories which have living credible witnesses who are raising serious questions about John Kerry's qualifications to lead. Of course, I am referring here to the blind spot in your coverage of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth story.
It is my opinion that CBS needs to do some serious house cleaning. It also should get a clue about returning to basic journalistic principles which I learned at the knee of my high school journalism teacher, such as:
"a journalist must be accurate accurate accurate," and "a journalist must be impartial impartial impartial," otherwise, "a journalist becomes not credible not credible not credible."
Sincerely,
TEXOKIE
My wife works at an ABC affiliate and she told me a few nights ago (when this whole thing blew up) that CBS could face stiff fines. She didn't know the details and I'm waiting to talk to the station GM to learn some of the finer points of the law.
we need to ping to any corporate or media lawyers - know any?
Contact Dan's bosses:
Sumner M. Redstone, chairman/CEO - Viacom
sumner.redstone@viacom.com
Leslie Moonves, president/CEO, CBS -
leslie.moonves@tvc.cbs.com
Devastinwg. Its like shooting fish in a barrel with one of the helicopter machine guns.
''I've always wondered,'' murmured Frank, ''what 'editor emeritus' means.''
''The 'e-' means you've been given the elbow and the '-meritus' means you bloody deserve it,'' said Murdoch.
I have a feeling after November CBS News will be promoting Dan Rather to editor emeritus.
We hope.
The GM at the station my wife works at should know the law. I'll ping you after I talk to him.
It's better than Kerry:
"John McCain and Max Cleland had a bad experience and heard all sorts of crap. This current stuff is a bad experience, therefore, it must all be crap."
Excellent contrast between the old media reaction to Swifties and the old media reaction to forged CBS memos.
Really?!!Now that puts a different light on the question of the SBVT response to this thing!!
I would think that would add up to a reason to sue CBS. Somebody sure should.
Nice work!
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