Posted on 05/19/2005 7:29:34 AM PDT by pissant
I don't see John Roberts' name anywhere in this story; I imagine he's not a happy camper.
You know what this proves, right? It proves that they had NO PLAN for Rather's "leaving."
I think at times there are things best seen in motion. Unfortunately, the nightly news does not do this (and CBS speficially told views to search the internet if they wanted to see the Nick Berg video).
In older generations they turned to newsreels. Not to discover breaking news, but to see footage of a story that was already covered in print.
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The "news" of a 30 minute national broadcast boils down to about 6-8 minutes of headlines coverage, spoken updates with some footage and remote reporters.
Then they take a commercial break and get into the "Eye on America" type news-magazine pieces that could air at any date. Some are single person histories to say why the job market is rough, or how one person is struggling with health care costs, or maybe a story using canned footage from some biotech firm boasting about the lastest medical "breakthrough". The most laughable were CBS Evening News' "Reality check". Um, shouldn't these disections of the era's talking points be discussed as they are presented rather than playing "catch up"?
Take another commercial break and a few more headlines (that were hyped earlier in the broadcast). Close with something light and trivial.
Viacom may be trying to manuever their smug anchor on Comdedy Central (Jon Stewart) into the SeeBS studio.
His face was ALL OVER the place in the waning days of the 2004 election (cover of Rolling Stone and other magazines, a new book). He even was the "liberal" guest on some news talk shows.
It is a shift but as with Michael Moore, he would not have to be historically accurate. All he would have to claim is that he was being satirical if he is caught in a lie.
He's headed back to Toronto to do an oldies show on local radio.
Media Shenanigans:
http://www.attackthemessenger.com/index.html
Awright.
FGS ;^)
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