TO: CBS/NBC/ABC/CNN
FM: Enterprise
RE: News
DT: 09/12/04
Sirs/Maams:
The evening news was intended to serve the public good. You have with obvious partisanship abandoned any intent to serve the public good, and you are hereby relieved of any further news assignments. Please replace your evening news segments with the usual mindless sitcoms and maybe some hip-hop documentaries.
Toodles:
Enterprise
Excellent memo.
The writer of this column in the Post just doesn't get it. Oh, he sees that network news is losing its importance. But he thinks it is caused by them not covering the conventions. Nonsense.
People have turned to places where they can hear honest analysis and give-and-take, not the stacked deck that the networks present. People are sick of the "party line". Liberals have nothing to say, including liberal news commentators.
But if you're looking for a recent cause for loss of viewers (and hopefully readers - time will tell), you don't have to look any further than the past few days. The other networks can thank Dan Rather and CBS.
So they have done themselves in.