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To: 1Old Pro
While the panel found that some actions taken by CBS News encouraged such suspicions, “the Panel cannot conclude that a political agenda at 60 Minutes Wednesday drove either the timing of the airing of the segment or its content.”

I wonder what CBS had to do, or promise to do, to get that sentence inserted into the report. Terminations and resignations are necessary in this case but I am disappointed that the end result allows CBS to claim "fairness" still exists in its reporting.

Even the casual observer knows the "story" was a political hit piece designed to cause the maximum amount of damage to the Bush re-election campaign. But that's now swept under the rug.

This committee did the public half-service.

111 posted on 01/10/2005 7:31:07 AM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("I speak Spanish to God, French to women, English to men, and Japanese to my horse."-Buckaroo Banzai)
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To: Colonel_Flagg
Even the casual observer knows the "story" was a political hit piece designed to cause the maximum amount of damage to the Bush re-election campaign. But that's now swept under the rug. This committee did the public half-service.

They did the public a half service but gave a full service Lewinsky to the executives at CBS. If they admitted the TRUTH, that this was to effect an election, they'd all be in JAIL, just like their buddies at ENRON that they constantly attack.

123 posted on 01/10/2005 7:34:39 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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The report doesn't even admit that the documents are forgeries. If they can't get that factoid correct, then the rest of it is worthless as well..


133 posted on 01/10/2005 7:38:22 AM PST by ken5050
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