Experts ponder fate of CBS' Heyward

THE JOURNAL NEWS (New York State) ^ | January 16, 2005 | HEATHER SALERNO

[Paleo Conservative]

Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Andrew Heyward's got to go!

[Drango]

I don't understand the Rather defense either...They assert he was just a Talking head and not involved in the script or story 'cause he was overextended. Perhaps true on day one....but the cover-up and stonewalling. The unimpeachable defense? I don't believe for a second that Dan was disengaged from the process.

[Paleo Conservative]

..They assert he was just a Talking head and not involved in the script or story 'cause he was overextended.

If he's just a talking head, why is he paid so much?

[Cicero]

I don't believe it for a minute. According to early leaks, while it was in preparation several lower level executives complained that they thought the documents were bogus, but Rather pushed ahead anyway.

Also he said he had unimpeachable sources and expert testimony. It turns out he had neither. The experts TOLD him from the first that they could not vouch for the authenticity of the documents or the signatures. That seems clear enough.

I don't see why Les Moonves shouldn't leave, too, while we're at it. The man is a disaster.

[martin_fierro]

"This story hasn't finished unfolding," he said. "And when it does, I think there will be more changes, and they'll be significant."

Yeah, well, so far CBS News is:

• reputed to be considering Katie Couric as Rather's replacement;
• giving carte blanche to Teddy Kennedy without rebuttal by the Bush White House.

I'm less than optimistic that meaningful changes are coming there.

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[TruthWillWin]

1. Andrew Heyward and Dan Ra^ther sould be fired. Should have happened months ago.

2. Someone broke the law. Forging documents in an attempt to influence an election is a crime.

Arrest and convict those guilty of this crime.

[Drango]

Also he said he had unimpeachable sources and expert testimony.

The independent report suggests that Dan was told to say those words, and he went along to be a "team player". BUNK I believe those were Dan's words, not Marys Mapes or the executives. I'll give him the first day defense....but the cover-up for 10 days? Who in the industry believes that he wasn't involved in every detail?

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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And LIBERAL Los Angeles Times Media Reporter DAVID SHAW still tell us all that:



RATHER's work 'Shoddy, Slipshod' not LIBERAL..?

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1227809/posts

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[Liz]

FReeper truthwillwin is correct.....laws were broken here and someone needs to be indicted.


Pat Buchanan said it best on one of the cable talk shows......these people were "engaged in a conspiracy" to undermine a US election to advance their own political agenda.

This is a bigtime felony.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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Seems RATHER had assured CBS News President Andrew Heyward that he had not...

.."been involved in this much checking on a story since WATERGATE."


See this for yourself in today's Los Angeles Times front page Media Story not written by its longtime Media Critic DAVID SHAW titled:


How CBS' Big Story Fell Apart

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1321822/posts

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[Eric in the Ozarks]

Ash heap bound.

[Judith Anne]

Katie Couric to replace Dan Rather? That would be so hilarious! And so fitting, somehow...I mean, every time I think about her, I remember that she's the one who showed the inside of her colon on television. It gets all mixed up in my mind, but thinking of the inside of Katie's colon being better, somehow, than the outside of Dan's face....

Doesn't matter. I haven't actually seen CBS in years, literally. Or any program on it...

[Cicero]

I trust that no one will post a picture of Katie's colon here without sufficient warning.

[snarks_when_bored]

"I'm told he has shared with people that he feels a certain sorrow and guilt about being the guy who survived," said New Yorker writer Peter Boyer of Ossining, a former CBS staffer who wrote the book, "Who Killed CBS?: The Undoing of America's Number One News Network."

Resigning as an acknowledgment of one's failure to perform one's job effectively? What a quaint notion.

[BILL_C]

I don't believe for a second that Dan was disengaged from the process.

CBS doesn't care what you believe, just watch and buy the soap, or cars, or cBS that they're showing. They'll tell you what you should believe.

And one more thing: "They" totally agree with you that Dan was very involved. But our press, along with our government, thinks they can say what they want, when they want to, and you, the public, will buy it.

History will judge us as FOOLS if we don't get it straightened out. In the grand scheme of things, the press' job is to keep the government story straight, not to let the government (democratic party in this case) dictate the stories (read lies).

[Malesherbes]

You've seen one colon, you've seen them all - but Rat Hair is something else.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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...Without our finally nailing these Anti-U.S. Media characters to the wall,

...people like CBS News President ANDREW HEYWARD will still be out there improperly using that Media to nail our Commander-in-Chief BUSH in time of war.

Just take a look at what happened today on CBS:


CBS Nixed White House Request to Rebut KENNEDY

http://www.Newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/1/16/154400.shtml

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[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!