[forest]

We've been hoodwinked in a flimflam.

Cohorts at CBS "fixed" a certain "60 Minutes" program many years ago to help Clinton.

Memos about Bush are fake, retained by DNC, et al, for a long time. The scam is the media argument about them. It has wagged Kerry's 'Nam scam off the news.

By the middle of last week, CBS and some other liberal media hacks were actually saying that even if the documents are fake, the content is true. That's what they said. I say "scam!" I say that they all fell right in with the Kerry campaign/DNC talking points and are using it to suck up the oxygen of the news. It's a scam because they used it to create a diversion, almost exactly like when Clinton used to play "wag the dog" every time things got too hot for him.

Watch the liberal national media as they function as the Kerry propaganda mill. They are paid well, but laughing.

[OldFriend]

There's a new player on the field. The old guys are running out of steam. We all know their plays. They've not had to deal with our pitches and are flailing away.

[fish hawk]

Dead men walking: Old Europe and Old Media

[thoughtomator]

If that's the best they can come up with, their situation is desperate indeed.

[G.Mason]

Doug Fiedor needs some rest. His tin foil cap has caused his head to boil over.

Yes sir! It's a scam alright. We've been had!

Kerry is just soaring in the polls, and the end of the world is just around the bend, or is that Fiedor & company I'm seeing?

[Fiddlstix]

All we have to remember is that they are liberals. The talking heads, their producers, the reporters, their paymasters, all of them. Liberals. And they are paid very well to maintain the liberal line in everything they report.

That pretty well sums it up.

[Batrachian]

This is the worst scam I've ever heard of. Kerry is dropping like a rock because of this so called scam, and so is CBS's viewership. This article is BS, but if it's true, then I'd say CBS and the Dems have really outsmarted themselves this time.

No, it's a scam alright, but not like what it says in this stupid article. The scam is them pushing phony documents to try and get Bush, and they where caught red-handed. Plain and simple.

This article was definitely written in pajamas, I'd say.

[Therealjoe]

This issue has reached critical mass, no matter how much the rats would like to spin it away or ignore it the conflagration will continue to it's natural end. It's been a long time coming and the pleasure of experiencing it is almost intoxicating. The next flare point will be the 1st. Presidential Debate. In my opinion CBS, which has now been thoroughly discredited, should not be permitted any active role in the process.

[starfish923]

The Fox talking heads were discussing the demise of the influence of the "elite media." That would include CBS, ABC, NBC, the New York Times and their ilk--which would be most of the major newspapers and magazines.

They were "hallelujah"-ing and "amen"-ing the rise of the
1. internet,
2. talk radio,
3. Fox News.

Wouldn't it be nice if it were true?
Next to fall: Hollywood.
Wouldn't THAT be nice?

[tvn]

MEDIA ETHICS PROJECT SEEKS FCC RULING AGAINST CBS NEWS FOR RATHERGATE



Media Ethics Project (“MEP”) of New York today petitioned the FCC to sanction CBS News and its parent organization, Viacom, Inc., for its recent broadcast of news reports based on forged documents.

In announcing the FCC filing, MEP Chairman William L. Whitely stated: “Most people familiar with Dan Rather’s reports have seen solid evidence from various credible sources showing the documents to be forged. Yet, day in and day out, CBS has stubbornly continued to maintain that the memos are authentic. This supremely arrogant conduct violates the public trust and FCC rules and policies. Viacom cannot be allowed to flaunt the Commission’s rules in this manner. ”

MEP seeks a ruling by the FCC finding that the deliberate actions of CBS and Viacom maintaining the authenticity of the documents, constitute broadcasting of falsified, faked, distorted or staged news reports in violation of e Commission policies. MEP is asking the FCC to sanction Viacom including imposing fines and ordering forfeiture of one or more broadcast licenses .

Mr. Whitely added that, “This whole episode must be regarded as a remarkable failure of management. It is truly sad that the proud traditions of professionalism of CBS News, the division built by the likes of Morrow, Severeid, Reasoner, Mudd and Cronkite, have been allowed to slowly fade away. In their place is an organization where unprincipled ego, bias, negligence, partisanship and vindictiveness apparently determine the setting of management policy. Such changes are not in the best interest of CBS, the CBS affiliates and CBS shareholders, nor, most certainly, are they in the public interest as well. Staying to this course, the House that Paley Built will likely become the Network that Rather Wrecked.”

MEP has asked that the FCC expedite its consideration of the group’s Petition for Declaratory Ruling against CBS News.

See a full copy of the MEP Petition for Declaratory Ruling at http://mediaethicsproject.blogspot.com/ or www.mediaethics.8k.com

With MEP's filing, the FCC now has a formal Petition to review requesting that CBS be found guilty for violating Commission policy prohibiting the broadcasting of falsified, faked, distorted or staged news reports as contrary to the public interest.

All interested parties will now be able to contact the FCC to request that it take immediate action on the MEDIA ETHICS PROJECT Petition For Declaratory Ruling Against CBS News.

FCC Contact Information:

Chairman Michael K. Powell: Michael.Powell@fcc.gov ---
Commissioner Kathleen Q. Abernathy: Kathleen.Abernathy@fcc.gov --- Commissioner Michael J. Copps: Michael.Copps@fcc.gov ---
Commissioner Kevin J. Martin: KJMWEB@fcc.gov ---
Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein: Jonathan.Adelstein@fcc.gov

[dr_who_2]

This "flim flam" isn't helping their guy any, and it isn't hurting Bush. If that's the best they can do, they're in trouble.