[Rum Tum Tugger]

My guess, there's a battle going on within CBS.

I think you are exactly right. That's why there were so many delays today. Heyward's statment was the only thing they could agree on. It is going to be very interesting.

[Knownothing]

Rum Tum Tugger I think you're right. I think they were poised to say something much bigger, and either they couldn't get their ducks in a row or they couldn't agree on what to say. This message said "nothing to see here, move on." They way they delivered it said "SOMETHING BIG TO SEE HERE, EVERYBODY L@@K!!!" Clearly, something must have happened during the course of the day that changed their message.

[Robert357]

Heyward's statment was the only thing they could agree on.

While I agree that there does seem to be an internal struggle as demonstrated by the delay, I suspect that the language given means that the folks at CBS News are part of the problem and ViaCOM & CBS Corporate execs are the ones trying to resolve this without any more damage to the company.

The real interesting question was what kind of threats of "whistle blowing" were made to get this compormise language to be agreed to? Will Drudge get a juicy leak from a home computer tonight from a disgruntaled CBS employee? Inquiring minds want to know!