Posted on 11/08/2004 10:56:11 AM PST by GLDNGUN
Players involved in the notorious 60 Minutes II story, reported by Dan Rather, which employed dubious documents regarding President Bush’s National Guard service, may have been rooting for a John Kerry victory.
No, it wasn’t that old bugaboo liberal media bias as much as it was a bias toward saving their own skins. The report from an internal investigation into the documents mess was purposely being held until after the election.
Pre-election, the feeling in some quarters at CBS was that if Kerry triumphed, fallout from the investigation would be relatively minimal. The controversial piece’s producer, Mary Mapes, would likely be suspended or fired, but a long list of others up the chain of command—from 60 Minutes II executive producer Josh Howard, to Rather and all the way up to news division President Andrew Heyward—would escape more or less unscathed.
But now, faced with four more years of President Bush, executives at CBS parent Viacom could take a harder line on the executives involved.
Hmmm, yeah right. That or they never nemtion it again on any broadcast channel.
Hmmm, yeah right. That or they never nemtion it again on any broadcast channel.
Why should the news media be exempt from punishment. What they did was an affront to truth and journalistic integrity. No more can the thinking public be deceived that there is no bias. They are as guilty for what they did as the Enron people are for what they did. Two different crimes, same level of culpability.
Heads should roll, beginning with Dan Rather.
Republicans had better make an example of this fraud.
The poohbahs at CBS are furious, not because Rather and Co. violated all journalistic ethics in an attempt to unseat the president, but because their efforts were discredited and (most unforgivably) counterproductive.
I voted them off my tv forever........ ;-)
I've seen this episode before. On the Simpsons. Krusty gets cancelled.
Thirty-five years in television and already nobody remembers me.
Just like what's-his-face.
-- Krusty the Klown, ``Krusty Gets Kancelled''
Imagine the revenge Bubba Hitlery or JohnF would have prosecuted with if the zapata were on the other foot....
Election tampering should be a crime...
Rather HAS to go down for this. We cannot stand for any less. Maple's head will roll, but she cannot be the only one to take a fall. Rather MUST go!
I like it! But they ought to make Alaska the right size.
I'm pretty sure the results of CBS's internal investigation are hidden in Sandy Berger's pants. I'd like to be wrong about that.
How about full-blown Congressional and Justice Dept investigations into media attempts to influence the Presidential election?
Revoke CBSs White House Press Passes!
Payback arrives via the Kharmic B!tch.
Waiting ... still waiting.
:-)
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