"We're just having trouble fitting in all the lies," said Rooney. "With an hour, we think we could lie in-depth."
Posted on 12/10/2004 11:26:38 AM PST by GeneD
Andy Rooney indicated Thursday that CBS may once again be considering airing a one-hour nightly newscast. Appearing on Larry King's CNN program, Rooney said: ‘Most of the American public gets their news from television. And if we're going to have an informed electorate, we have to have good television news. I think it's vital that we have it. I keep waiting for some hero to come in and say, look, I'm going to give them the money. We're going to run this network, we're going to make all our money off programming and we can make plenty of it that way. But the news we're not going to touch. We're going to make it better. We're going to put on an hour of news every night.’ An unsuccessful battle for a one-hour nightly newscast was long waged by Walter Cronkite when he anchored the CBS Evening News. Rooney said that he had discussed the prospect with CBS News President Andrew Heyward. ‘He's hopeful. He thinks there's some prospect that they might [approve it], that they know how important it is.’
How eliminating the CBS News division altogether?
That's their solution, an hour's worth of DNC talking-point lies?
That will not fly at all with the affiliates.
An additional 30 minutes to lie and slant what they present.
That's hilarious. This is a joke, right?
If it's a good product, people will watch...including commercials.
"We're just having trouble fitting in all the lies," said Rooney. "With an hour, we think we could lie in-depth."
Didn't know he could stay sober until night to do a show.
John
Too late, the internet has filled that role.
"Most of the American public gets their news from television."
Where th' heck has he been?
Exactly what I suggested that FOX should do on their commercial channels nationwide and have Brit Hume and Tony Snow as co-anchors.
FOX would blow away the competition!
Even better: how about replacing Blather with The Dowdy One.
Classic liberalism. The solution to failure is to do more of what is failing.
"Most of the American public gets their news from television".
Dinosaur speak. He has to get out more often.
It's all about credibility of which SeeBS, NBC & ABC do not have...
Classic liberal-demokkkRAT insanity: doing the same dumbass thing over and over and over again, and expecting a different result.
That reminds me: did you hear Rush reporting on the first PEST session, in Florida? It sounded more like a Three-Minutes Hate.
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