[Rutles4Ever]

This could get interesting. Sayonara, Dan.

[N. Beaujon]

This is why it was so important not to watch just to get a list of advertisers to boycott. By watching they get ratings. Boycotting the show itself achieves a far better result: advertisers abandon ship like lemmings leaving the Titanic.

Numbers talk. If Rather generates ratings via controversy the advertisers will stay. If viewers abandon CBS out of disgust, there is NO reason for them to support this crappy network and they wont. ALL of our goals are accomplished and, further, we didnt have to suffer through the insufferable propaganda-filled Blather of CBS News, 60 Minutes, or any of their other worthless "news gathering" operations (e.g. circuses.)

If you want to send letters to advertisers, let one or two Freepers watch, get a list and them slam them with mail. But to watch them for that result is to undermine our cause: shutting down propaganda mills parading as news outlets by averting our "eyeballs".

[NYer]

[Indie]

we're being perceived as 'anti-Bush,' which I do not think is fair to Dan, who is a fine journalist

Self-righteous even as the ship's bridge slides under the water. Pukes.

[RJL]

"Rightly or wrongly, we're being perceived as 'anti-Bush,' which I do not think is fair to Dan, who is a fine journalist...

Hey CBS & Gunga Dan, America is laughing at you!

[trentk]

Couldn't happen to nicer guy. And trailing 2-1 to one of the most loathsome talking heads in mediadom, Peter Jennings! You know, in "Bias", Bernie Goldberg predicted this was eventually going to happen- wish they could dole some of's Dan's "don't watch" over to Brokaw and Jennings.

[Argus]

Rather can always get a job anchoring the Weekend Update segment on Saturday Night Live.

[auggy]

" "Rightly or wrongly, we're being perceived as 'anti-Bush,' which I do not think is fair to Dan, who is a fine journalist... of course"

It's Not FAIR...WAAAAA..It's Just Not FAIR...WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

Like a bunch of 2 year old kids.

[IonInsights]

other than San Francisco

The center of strange world.

[John123]

"Rightly or wrongly, we're being perceived as 'anti-Bush,' which I do not think is fair to Dan, who is a fine journalist.

Are we not on the same planet? Dan has been a virulent critic of President Bush for quite some time. OF COURSE CBS News is perceived as anti-Bush!

[SwinneySwitch]

San FranSicko! I wondered where Cap'n Dan was going after he was fired. Certainly don't want him back in Texas. Thought he might have to move to france!

[freakboy]

"Are those documents authentic, as experts consulted by CBS News continue to maintain? Or were they forgeries or re-creations, as Knox and many others believe? "

--60 Minutes II website

Who are these experts that continue to maintain that the documents are authentic? Certainly not any of those that CBS has presented so far.

Also, notice that CBS doesn't acknowledge that many experts believe that they are forgeries, instead using the term "many others". Furthermore, CBS is now trying to shift from using the word "forgeries" to using the term "recreations". What is the difference? If they are presented as originals (including a signature), they are forgeries.

[nightdriver]

"Rightly or wrongly, we're being perceived as 'anti-Bush,' which I do not think is fair to Dan, who is a fine journalist..."

You may think he is, if you like, but it's only your opinion.

[Bonaparte]

But but but the sponsors have all said they're not worried, that they're receiving negligible number of complaints and don't anticipate changing where they place their ads. So how can this be?

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

"Rightly or wrongly, we're being perceived as 'anti-Bush,' which I do not think is fair to Dan, who is a fine journalist...

Even the supposedly "smart people" at SEE BS are idiots.

[EricT.]

"The audience appears to becoming polarized,"

No, the audienced is becoming informed and the Old Media just can't get away with the crap they used to for so long.

[Ciexyz]

{sniff, sniff} What d'you smell, Big Daddy? Why, it's the smell of mendacity!

Tip o' the hat to Tennesee Williams.

[OESY]

Journalism's Hall of Shame to induct two more, Rather and Mapes:

jayson Blair, New York Times

Steven Glass, New Republic

Jack Kelley, USA Today

Janet Cooke, Washington Post

Peter Arnett, CNN and NBC, MSNBC and National Geographic Explorer

Dan Rather, CBS

Mary Mapes, CBS

[the invisib1e hand]

is Don Henley on the "hasbeen rockers against Bush" tour? and if he is, will he perform "Dirty Laundry?" /rhetorical question