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Local news is an important revenue source for local stations.
Also, Viewers can pressure their local stations to drop syndicated programs, like 60 minutes and other CBS productions. These smaller local stations do not want their viewers switching channels, they loose advertising revenues. They will not be willing to take a loss for Dan.
Good one! Here's the one I wrote the CBS affiliate in Austin, yesterday (Tim Gardner is the news director):
Dear KEYE,
Tim Gardner's statement concerning CBS's latest attempt to sabotage our
Presidential election this Nov. is quite fake and full of lies. You really
think your viewers/readers are THAT dumb, to believe Mr. Gardner's tripe?
Here's a howler from the statement :
"At KEYE News, we come to work every day trying our very best to fairly ,
accurately-- and without bias-- report on the news that affects you. We
always will."
Did Dan Rather write that one? You claim that you report WITHOUT bias?
Then why haven't you been hammering out articles concerning the fact that
John Kerry has NOT signed Form-180 which authorizes the Pentagon to release
ALL of his military records into the public domain? To simplify things for
you, why don't you investigate what Mssr. Kerry is probably hiding by not
releasing his military records? Why isn't KEYE trying to educate voters on
who exactly John Kerry is? A good start for that one would be a 3-5 part
series discussing his record in the senate. Of course, that would reflect
very negatively on Mssr. Kerry, so I guess I just answered my own question.
The claim that CBS doesn't tell you what to report is patently false. You
echo the exact same headlines as your mother company. And that, to me, is
the biggest shame of all. You are supposed to be a local news organization;
instead you parrot the daily DNC talking points. Go back and research how
many articles you've written concerning President Bush's Natl. Guard
service, and then compare that to how many articles you've written detailing
John Kerry's "testimony" to the US Senate in 1971, accusing his comrades of
many horrible war crimes while the war in Vietnam was still engaged!
Perhaps you could also talk about his role in the Winter Soldier mess.
Bottom line : KEYE needs to apologize to President Bush and his family for
slandering him for over a week on this issue. KEYE also needs to PROFUSELY
apologize to the Killian family.
Best Regards,
cweese
The truth, as Mark Steyn noted, is that John Kerry is a walking parody of the limosine liberal Democrat who has done nothing for we-the-people in "thirty years of 'public' service."
And the truth is that the Republican Party is the party, not of the rich, but of the middle class.
Pretty good letter, but frankly, Walter Cronkhite (means "sickness" in German) was just as bad. He just didn't have that obnoxious whistle when he pronounced his "S"s like Rather does.
CBS has decided to be more truthful and begin the nightly newscast with "Once Upon A Time".....
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