Richard Thornburgh: "He mischaracterized the source, referred to him as 'unimpeachable,' when it's well-known in the background of this particular source was a lot of bias and a lot of reason to pause."
Richard Thornburgh, former Attorney General: "We did find, however, an insensitivity to appearances, so most of the sources for this story had a strong anti-President Bush agenda of their own."
Lisa Myers stressed on the January 10 NBC Nightly News: "The panel also said producer Mary Mapes' contact with the Kerry campaign about the story was inappropriate and created an appearance of political bias."
Howard Kurtz, the Washington Post: "It's going to take a while for the network to get over a high-profile blunder."
"CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves says Rather will not be disciplined in light of his previous decision to leave the anchor chair this March."
Can anyone say "nutcase"?
This guy doesn't know the difference between paid advertising time and editorial/reporting in the name of the news organization. Sheesh. Nuance isn't the word for it. It's outright distortion of the truth.
CBS, ABC, NBC, are going down in flames, and the voice of the monitors of Neros court are singing while the idiots of the family, (like Obermann)play the violins.
OPs4 God BLess America!
LOL, Keith. What's the difference, here? Let me explain:
The Swift Boat ads were just that, ads! The were produced and developed by private citizens, NOT journalists working for a network. They weren't attempting to masquerade their ad as a "hard news story".
What a maroon.
How would Olbermann know there was distortion or untruth in the SwiftBoat ads ..?? Evidently, Keith was watching FNC and saw them .. or propably more correctly, he's just being his usual ULTRA LEFT-WING BIASED NEWS READER.
Tell that to your audience and you might have a molecule of journalistic credibility. Step one: Get an audience.
Tinfoil Keith strikes again! I think that, without realizing it of course, Olbermann has become the epitome of how liberal the media really is. He even posesses the usual tone-deafness to his own biases. No doubt he actually is dumb enough to buy into the argument that we in the "right-wing media" (also known as people with brains) set up Rather for this one.
Simple intiution is enough to refute the lib argument here. Even without the report, it was obvious that grave wrongdoing had been committed at CBS. If the Rather crew had a prayer of restoring their credibility (or at least the perception thereof), they would have done it. As it stands, Rather scrammed town before the Sheriff rode in. If he was righteous as Olbermann and the fellow tinfoilers claim he is, one would think he'd stay and fight.
Olbermann has what? 3 regular viewers?
I think I've watched maybe 2 minutes of him and that was all of his smarmyness I could take.
bah who cares what olhberman thinks or says
Media bias is very easy to expose; just substitute the name of one of their beloved liberals in place of the Republican or conservative they are bashing and see if such a story would ever be reported.
Who is Olbermann and what's this MSNBC you're mentioning?
:-{/
Keith has a great future ahead of him at Err America (it's like internet radio, but not as popular).
I remember something about Richard Thornburgh not paying his consultants and stuff, I think Rove was one of them.
"Look Bernie, of course there's a liberal bias in the news. All the networks tilt left." -- CBS News President ANDREW HEYWARD, to six-time Emmy award winner Bernie Goldberg, quoted HERE.
To think that I used to like him on Sportscenter....what a whacko.