CBS may disclose as early as today the members of a panel it has created to review the reporting process of the story, which involved now-disputed documents purported to have been written by a National Guard officer who supervised "Mr. Bush".
THAT IS PRESIDENT BUSH!
Blessings, Bobo
budget pressures ???
They can't do their job properly because of budget pressures???
Ummm ... I know Perky Katie makes 13 MILLION per year .... How much a year does Danny Boy make??
Viacom lie debunked here on Snopes.com
You know as much as I enjoy the site of seeing Rather Crash and burn, I do think I ought to interject a bit of realism.
One of the reasons Rush does so well is that he gives his audience what they want. A spin of the world that conforms to their own. (Note I said 1 of the reasons, others being he is right, and he is dang entertaining)
People who have differing viewpoints will continue to tune in to the big 3, and to the Clinton News Network, just as they have for years. They spew a view of the world that conforms to how these Libbys think it should be, and to a libby, or even a conservative seeing people who agree with you is comforting.
Look at how well Michael Moores propaganda movie did. You know that pretty much the only people who bothered to see it were the pundits who had to, and the nutjobs who agreed with him. He made 100 Million on the "Documentary". Look at all the folks who buy Billaries books. My Lie and Rewriting History...
My point is, that as sad as it is, there will always be a demand for their tripe, fortunatly there are now alternatives where I can actually get the news.
"People in the network news organizations who are looking for a rationale to soften up have found it," says Todd Gitlin, a professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York. "They weren't taking too many risks even before this, and they will take even fewer now."
Good. Are we supposed to feel bad that a one-sided report with phony documents is being frowned upon? I noticed that the media coverage on Kitty Kelley's book was a lot tougher than it would have been if Rathergate hadn't happened. Of course, Todd Gitlin thinks that kind of coverage is a bad thing.
The WSJ had a very interesting article last week Thursday about the Nielsen ratings: turns out these are done on paper, error-prone, and hinted that as a result the ratings for network watching are probably very inflated (the impression I got from the article was that the type of people who are willing to do the nightly Nielsen paperwork are people who have a lot of time on their hand, and therefore not 'average' Americans, are not too aware of what's going on, and many probably don't even have cable or satellite). The networks probably have much fewer viewers than they are letting on right now.
I think it's highly generational. For older people who grew up with the networks - they still have that routine of tuning into the 6:30 Dinosaur displays. But younger working people don't have time for that fixed half hour - and the pompous melodrama of these idiots turns off sentient viewers of all persuasions.
The Pajamascenti will increasingly run circles around the network dinosaurs because the PJs are not isolated from public scrutiny and can self-adjust to get the story right -- quickly, cheaply, reliably. Interactive collaboration produces the best news product while democratizing the process as we have never before seen.