WKYT and WYMT Response to Recent CBS Reporting

WKYT Lexington ^ | September 20, 2004 | WKYT Lexington

[Ex-Dem]

We believe this approach to covering local and state events has served our stations well. Because so many of you have faith in us, we have been the news organization most watched by Kentucky residents. Our approach is in sharp contrast to the debacle now occurring at our network partner-- CBS.

[edpc]

Well....the last comment sent a radio guy packing out West. Tread lightly.

[Panzerlied]

STATEMENT FROM DAN RATHER

If I knew the blogs would hand me my A$$ on platter I would not have gone ahead with this story!

[Bluegrass Conservative]

I will say that WKYT and WYMT have been very fair to both sides in Kentucky in the past few years. They have a weekly interview show called "Newsmakers" that is a one-on-one interview. The host, Bill Bryant, has made sure that the show is fair in both booking Republicans and Democrats and by asking them fair, non-biased questions.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Not good enough.

[steve in DC]

MAN WHO GAVE CBS NEWS DISPUTED DOCUMENTS DESCRIBES HOW HE OBTAINED THEM; IN TELEVISION INTERVIEW, HE ADMITS HE DELIBERATELY MISLED CBS NEWS PRODUCER

Bravo Sierra!

I am the man who gave those disputed memos to CBiaS...and I categorically deny these claims that I have admitted to having misled CBiaS or anyone else. Deliberately or otherwise.

I stand by the validty of the documents, and challenge CBS to prove that it was not me who gave them the memos!

[GOPJ]

When CBS is ready to clean up their reputation - here's where to start -- hire the honest people of WKYT and WYMT.

[AmericanInTokyo]

The part at the end of the Dan Rather Statement, where he resigns from CBS, was the most impressive!!

[sr4402]

I am the man who gave those disputed memos to CBiaS

Can you prove to us that you were the source of the documents given to Dan Rather?

[blindmoron]

1. No admission that they are forgeries.
2. No retraction of the story's merit
3. Apology for not proving them true?
4.Convenient joint release from Burkitt claiming he misled...but there own sources told them they were false so how could they be misled..
5.why do they center on good faith and burkitt..they were not misled and Burkitt is not the source. He is cut-away, the patsy

[steve in DC]

Can CBiS prove that I am not?

As long as they are going to coordinate press releases from this "unnammed source" (and as long as the dolts in the complicit Main Stream Media are going to credit these press releases from "unnamed sources", then I am going to maintain that I am the unnammed source, in reality, and that the press releases attributed to me are false...

...and dare them to prove that it is someone else, and not me.

(It may very well not be me, after all, but even if my statements are demonstrated to be false, I will still stand by the factuality of my underlying story. Heck, it worked for Dan Rather fo rtwo weeks.)

[Teflonic]

What's the frequency, Dan?

[PAR35]

"I can promise you that WKYT and WYMT will not change our standards to report fairly and accurately all sides of an issue."

How far would they have to change their standards to begin to report fairly and accurately?

[Ex-Dem]

The part at the end of the Dan Rather Statement, where he resigns from CBS, was the most impressive!!

Well, we can dream can't we? It'd never happen though. Rather would never leave under anything but his own terms. He'd prefer having his credibility demolished to getting forced out by a bunch of "pajama-wearing amateurs".

[Zebra]

If CBS doesn't fire Mapes and Rather--at a minimum--the outcry will be devastating. The last week has likely seen the end of 60 Minutes as a credible news magazine, and CBS will put the entire CBS news division at risk if it does not act immediately with respect to Mapes and Rather. To support them in the face of such an obvious journalist breach of ethics of the highest order is incomprehensible. First viewers, and then affiliates, will abandon CBS in droves.

[y2k_free_radical]

ping

[ForGod'sSake]

From Houston:

Houston CBS Radio Affiliate 950KPRC Dumps Rather May Cancel CBS Contract

FGS

[Bluegrass Conservative]

What do you want WKYT and WYMT to do?

[Capt. Tom]

Burkett originally said he obtained the documents from another former Guardsman. Now he says he got them from a different source whose connection to the documents and identity CBS News has been unable to verify to this point.

Looks like Burkett is going to have more than 15 minutes of infamy. - tom

[Eric in the Ozarks]

CBS. I should've been more clear.