[JPJones]

Yeah..Where are the hearings?.

[Nathan Zachary]

"A small, initial chorus of suspicious Internet bloggers

Hey, pJ wearing bloggers! get it right! LoL Rather will be gone by the end of the week I bet at this rate the heat is being turned up.

[roadcat]

"In other news from the black-eye network CBS, Dan Rather has produced memos showing Bill Gates demonstrated a beta version of Microsoft Word in the early 1970's. Experts are suspicious as to the validity of the papers, as the type of paper wasn't produced until the 1990's."

(A tangled web he weaves... Resign Rather, you're a disgrace to the news community!)

[happydogdesign]

[NewMediaFan]

The vice keeps tightening...

[Sunsong]

The la times hits 'em hard, too:

times

[EGPWS]

Critics have gone beyond questioning the credibility of CBS anchorman Dan Rather.

It's gotta' be tough for Dan to have a leg kicked off his throne by the surfs.

[Bonaparte]

"If the documents are proven to be fake, it will be a terrible, devastating blow," former NBC News President Larry Grossman told the Wall Street Journal. "People will be fired, the program loses its credibility and Dan Rather ends a distinguished career with his reputation besmirched."

Sit down, Larry. I'm afraid I have some bad news for you. The memos have already been conclusively proven to be forgeries. There's no "if" here.

[connectthedots]

Some believe CBS has done more than compromise its journalistic integrity,

CBS compromised its journalistic integrity many years ago; it has simply reached the point where it is undeniable.

[Malesherbes]

I'd rather (no pun intended)see law suits (e.g. by the Killian family) or investigations by the FBI than Congressional hearings. The Dims would turn hearings into a circus about Bush's guard service.

The only good hearings would do - if held before the election - would be to suck more oxygen out of Kerry's flagging campaign, and other events are already doing that. Edwards has vanished from the news and Kerry attracts attention only when he makes another gaff.

[Terp]

Come on this story hasn't got legs as others said when it first broke [sarcasm].

[lainde]

We want hearings...With hefty fines and censure and ridicule and abject "humiliation" of the guilty parties, dagnabit!

[Bernard]

There is one other possibility that I haven't seen anybody bring up:

This could be the incentive for CBS to get out of the news business altogether (ABC as well).

20 - 25 years ago, the talent in the computer business was not going to IBM and DEC: it was going to companies that most of us had not heard of: Microsoft, Compaq, Apple.

It's entirely possible that Mr. Rather's support staff just isn't good enough to support real journalism, and how will CBS attract talent in the future? "Hey, come to CBS and help us re-build!"

I left NBC off the list about getting out of news because they have MSNBC and CNBC, so there are cable farm teams there.

[snowsislander]

Revoke CBS News press credentials.

Their impenitence at the patent abuse of their journalistic credentials at this point mandates that other press organizations start withholding recognition of CBS News as a legitimate participant in journalism.