Posted on 09/15/2004 1:59:55 PM PDT by gobucks
Howlin set a great example last sept 8th when he started a live thread for the 60 minutes II story.
Let's see how much squirmin we here ....
I guess this means the "interview" with the old lady didn't pan out.
I think we should all go to CBS offices in our jammies and slippers and demand Danny's resignation.
On Drudge:
Statement by the President of CBS News, Andrew Heyward:
"We established to our satisfaction that the memos were accurate or we would not have put them on television. There was a great deal of coroborating [sic] evidence from people in a position to know. Having said that, given all the questions about them, we believe we should redouble our efforts to answer those questions, so that's what we are doing."
"If news breaks, we fix it!" -- CBS
As the song goes: "It's 5 o'clock somewhere!"haha! Looks like they're going to run into the 5:30 (CDT) News!
I will likely switch from FOX News to SeeBS come news time !! haha!
What a Circus !!
If we're going to dream, we might as well dream big!
Besides, if See B.S. is going through all this trouble, someone in the DNC is implicated for sure!!!
It's only a matter of time, 'til the source gets outed.
Then...... THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLICAN PARADISE!!!!!!
CBS News boss:
Dan still the man
By STEPHEN BATTAGLIO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Struggling: Dan Rather's evening news remains in third place.
CBS News president Andrew Heyward said the division went overboard in pursuing an interview with injured Pvt. Jessica Lynch.
HOLLYWOOD - CBS News President Andrew Heyward admitted yesterday that he had no answers to why the "CBS Evening News with Dan Rather" continues to struggle in the ratings.
But he stood by Rather, who has been at the helm of the newscast since 1981.
The newscast runs a poor third among the networks and a few weeks ago logged its lowest ratings in at least a decade, if not ever.
"I'm frankly a little bit puzzled by it," Heyward told members of the Television Critics Association yesterday.
"The program journalistically, in my view, is excellent. Dan has had a fantastic year. The program was nominated for six Emmy Awards, significantly more than either competitor. The journalism and storytelling is terrific."
Yet, he said the program could do a better job showcasing what makes the show "distinctive" from its competitors, ABC's "World News Tonight" and NBC's "Nightly News."
"We probably don't get as much credit from the audience for the things we do that are distinctive and original," Heyward said. "We can do a better job at promoting that."
Meanwhile, Heyward conceded that CBS News went overboard in pursuing an interview with Pvt. Jessica Lynch.
Earlier, news division executives defended a letter they sent that tried to secure an exclusive sitdown with the former prisoner of war in Iraq.
Along with the interview request, the letter mentioned how Lynch could turn her story into a TV movie and book within other units of CBS' parent corporation, Viacom. It also suggested she could be the host of her own special on MTV, which could stage a concert in her hometown.
Heyward said yesterday that the letter wasn't clear enough in separating news and entertainment offers for Lynch.
"We have a well-defined policy, which is that there is no link between our interviews or requests for interviews with any other entity at Viacom or anywhere else," Heyward said.
"We thought we made that clear in the letter, but obviously we didn't do a good job of that."
His comments yesterday followed similar ones made by CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves over the weekend, who said that the letter's mention of a TV movie, "Maybe [it] went over the line" and hadn't respected "the sanctity of CBS News."
When reports of the letter to Lynch surfaced, CBS News was criticized for dangling entertainment opportunities to land a serious news interview.
CBS News executives stressed then that the letter made no direct link between the interview request and the other offers from within the parent company.
Originally published on July 21, 2003
I'm back .. any word from CBS yet??
So that's what everyone has been waiting all day for? Big deal.
So far, no.
I think gobucks claims to.
Big winner !!! Just Damn !!!
See #474
Yes. The statement's been out for 20 minutes. Go up the thread a few posts. It says nothing.
LOL!
It took CBS all day to produce this non-statement. This is something we EXPECTED them to do anyway. Losers.
CBS is dead.
We established to our satisfaction that the memos were accurate or we would not have put them on television. There was a great deal of coroborating [sic] evidence from people in a position to know. Having said that, given all the questions about them, we believe we should redouble our efforts to answer those questions, so that's what we are doing.
They said they were going to make a press release on the issue at 12:00, 3:00, 3:30, 5:00 and still have nothing. This release by Heyward means they STILL have nothing - don't expect anything more today.
Does anyone else think it strange that Howlin is awake and posting 24/7 ? Dan Rather and I want to know who pays her to hang around here in her pajamas?
So soon after? Howlin raised questions during the broadcast. Regardless, the real question is if bloggers could so quickly raise questions why hadn't CBS investigated those same obvious questions before going to air?
Peach,
I'm not sure how this recent statement 'clarifies' anything. We were promised a statement from CBS that would clarify things.
Yikes, it's bad news over there.
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