WBTV vs. Dan Rather [WBTV in Charlotte filed more than 50% of all complaints against Rather]

Charlotte Observer (subscription) ^ | March 9, 2005 | LEW POWELL

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(snip)Soon after the fake-documents story broke during the Bush-Kerry campaign, WBTV general manager Mary MacMillan petitioned the network to suspend Rather and "anyone else whose fingerprints are on that mess." Wounded by the scandal, Rather signs off today as anchor of the "CBS Evening News."

(snip)MacMillan's complaint revived memories of the late Charles Crutchfield, the station's first general manager and later president of Jefferson Pilot Broadcasting, its parent company. For more than two decades Crutchfield accounted for fully half the mail to CBS News from the network's 213 affiliates. Among his earliest targets: Edward R. Murrow's attacks on Sen. Joe McCarthy.

Fred Friendly, a president of CBS News, recalled that "At affiliate meetings in the '60s, when the Vietnam war was heating up, having to face Charlie Crutchfield made me work for my money."

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Sorry about the required excerpting, but this is an unusual story for such a liberal rag. Go figure.

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They now own the Gaston Gazette and any objectivity has long since passed. This is indeed a liberal rag.

[Rammer]

They shall soon be singing the praises of Parks Helms' latest tax hike.

Oh joy.