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"60 Minutes" without Mike Wallace? It's almost like "Oprah" without Oprah. But yesterday Wallace, 87, confirmed that this season on the Sunday-night CBS News program will be his last. "The time comes, for crying out loud," Wallace said from his apartment in New York. "You want to do it while you still can, under your own power." Wallace said that he plans to remain at CBS News and that he will continue to work on occasional pieces as a "correspondent emeritus." At CBS News and in the TV business generally yesterday, there was speculation that the retirement is not Wallace's...

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- The acting editor in chief at the Village Voice has left the weekly alternative newspaper, two weeks after overseeing publication of an issue containing fabricated material. The Voice announced the departure of Doug Simmons on its Web site by posting a photograph of what appeared to be a paper napkin bearing a handwritten note from Village Voice Media Executive Editor Michael Lacey. ``Doug Simmons is no longer acting editor,'' the napkin said. ``Ward Harkavy, long time senior editor and Arizona crony, is now interim editor. Call us tomorrow for next update.'' In a brief telephone...

The trouble with ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and that crowd -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: March 14, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com If you want to know what happened today, you don't have to turn on the tube. I will be happy to tell you right now, no extra charge. Ready? Here goes: What happened today is about what happened yesterday. And the day before. Namely: Four billion people went to work or took care of their kids. They cooked food, paid bills, washed clothes, handled problems, had a few laughs, did most of their chores, and got enough sleep to...

Here's the scene: Former CBS anchorman Dan Rather is in Cherry Hill, giving a speech about the need for journalists to do better. "What's gone out of fashion is the tough question and the follow-up," he tells an admiring audience of about 600 people at Cherry Hill's Star Forum. So how can I, the guy covering Rather's remarks, just sit there? When he finishes, I hurry to a floor mike to ask Rather about an issue that will be part of my story. "Mr. Rather," I say. "Great suggestions. But you left the anchor desk last year after your report...

A hilarious story from columnist Jim Walsh in the Courier Post of Cherry Hill, N.J.: Here's the scene: Former CBS anchorman Dan Rather is in Cherry Hill, giving a speech about the need for journalists to do better. "What's gone out of fashion is the tough question and the follow-up," he tells an admiring audience of about 600 people at Cherry Hill's Star Forum. So how can I, the guy covering Rather's remarks, just sit there? When he finishes, I hurry to a floor mike to ask Rather about an issue that will be part of my story. "Mr. Rather,"...

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CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Mike Wallace, whose often-confrontational interviews have been a hallmark of "60 Minutes" since the program's debut nearly 40 years ago, plans to step down from the broadcast this spring, according to a published report Tuesday. Wallace, 87, said that the decision was entirely his own, and that CBS (CBS) is not "pushing" him, the New York Times said. "The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing," the paper quotes Wallace as saying. Wallace -- who will stay at CBS in some capacity, according to the Times -- would be...

(CBS) There are few issues as hotly contested — and as poorly understood — as the question of what makes a person gay or straight. It's not only a political, social, and religious question but also a scientific question, one that might someday have an actual, provable answer. The handful of scientists who work in this under-funded and politically charged field will tell you: That answer is a long way off. But as Lesley Stahl reports, their efforts are already yielding tantalizing clues. One focus of their research is twins. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The bedrooms of 9-year-old twins Adam and Jared couldn't...

KATIE COURIC has taken some hits to her Q rating for her big salary and perceived imperiousness. More recently, she has displayed some professional restlessness, making it clear that she would like to trade her throne in the morning for the anchor chair in the evening. And CBS seems to be a willing partner. I spent last Friday morning with Ms. Couric — well, O.K., I watched the "Today" show along with more than six million other viewers — and I can't say I blame her. Yes, she got to talk to Tim Russert about port security, but that was...

The Three Serbs After Europe criticized the U.S. for its treatment of war prisoners at Gitmo (where no terrorist ever died), 2 Serb war-crimes prisoners died in European jails in the same week (one was denied medical care). The first to die was Milan Babic. The second to die after his request for medical care was denied was Slobodan Milosevic. Most of the world will yawn or cheer these developments, of course. But there is a 3rd Serb who is currently being railroaded by the same EU officials, along with some left-wing American help. Years ago, CBS's Dan Rather sent...

CBS's Chicago station took the lead in reporting the large immigrant protest yesterday in Chicago. And once again it looks like CBS is blatently manipulating the news, to support their viewpoints. Case in point are the pictures featured prominantly on their web site. Here is the lead picture: Notice the prominant American flag. If you choose to "view slideshow" here is the front image: Five of the first 10 slides have large obvious flags in the, such as this: The complete library can be viewed HERE (at least until they wise up and pull it like the did the fake...

President Bush's overall job approval rating has slipped to an all-time low of 41 percent and has shown the first significant signs of undermining his support among Republicans, according to the latest CBS News poll. While more than half of Americans now believe the economy is in good shape, fully 65 percent still think the country is on the wrong track – matching the highest number ever recorded. The last time this many Americans disapproved of the direction of the United States it was November 1994, and the Republicans were about to take back the Congress after 40 years...

Kevin Weeks didn’t have the stones to shoot me. That’s what I told Ed Bradley of “60 Minutes.” And for the record, I don’t believe any of the stuff he told Bradley about my alleged near-murder. You watch Sunday night and tell me who you believe. So his serial-killing boss Whitey Bulger hated me. This is news? Whitey wanted to murder me. Stop the presses. There’s an old saying: Never send a boy on a man’s errand, and that’s what Kevin was, a boy. He played Robin to Whitey’s Batman. There was a reason, after all, that his nickname was...

Disgraced CBS Anchor Proposes "Rather's Rules" for Good Journalism Posted by Rich Noyes on March 9, 2006 - 10:31.Dan Rather spoke at a Cherry Hill, New Jersey high school last night (Wednesday), South Jersey's Courier-Post reports this morning, and reporter Jim Walsh noted (without irony) that the disgraced and replaced CBS Evening News anchor proposed “Rather’s Rules” for improving journalism.Isn’t that a bit like “Dr. Kevorkian’s Rules” for better medicine?In his speech, Rather repeated his recent chiding of the national media for being too soft, and in “need of a spine transplant.” But when it came to his own...

The media company hopes to cash in on a lucrative new ad revenue stream by allowing people to watch March Madness games for free online. Following your favorite men's college basketball team - or at least the one you picked in your office pool -- in the NCAA tournament will be a lot easier and cheaper this year. Say for example, that you are an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania (Go Quakers!) and you want to watch Penn (the first team to clinch an NCAA bid, thank you very much) play its first-round game. Even if it's not being...

by Mark Finkelstein March 8, 2006 Bear with me. It's something of a slow news day. No Matt Lauer offering a 'he-set-me-up' defense for a lefty schoolteacher. Not even a Katie Couric plumping for more post-Katrina public housing. But perhaps, in a small way, an insight into how little hosts on the major morning news shows know about . . . the news. All the shows ran segments this morning about a new book, 'Game of Shadows', by San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams. With a release timed to coincide with the beginning of the baseball season,...

A year ago I wrote an article titled: “Why the Media Miss the Stem Cell Story.” It discussed the almost total disregard of adult stem cells (ASCs) and the glorification of “miraculous” human embryonic stem cells (ESCs) -- notwithstanding that the adult ones treat over 80 human diseases while embryonics haven’t even made it to human testing. For a wonderful example of this triumph of hype and politics over reality, look no further than two CBS News 60 Minutes segments that aired towards the end of February. One was “Scientist Hopes for Stem Cell Success” hosted by Ed Bradley (who...

by Mark Finkelstein March 5, 2006 I don't watch the network evening news shows. Really. But for whatever perverse reason, I decided to flip among ABC, NBC and CBS tonight, and hit some morally relativistic pay dirt. CBS Evening News equated attempted murder with the exercise of basic First Amendment freedoms. By now, virtually everyone is familiar with the incident in which the Iranian Mohammed Reza Taheri, with the reportedly admitted intent of avenging the alleged mistreatment of Muslims, drove an SUV into a crowd on the campus of the University of North Carolina. Introducing a segment on the incident,...

CBS Poll Puts Bush Approval At Negative Bazillion By a4gPoint Five Staff Writer @ 10:04 am Analysts believe Bush reelection “virtually impossible” Point Five’s source at CBS said that he “felt terrible” about having to report the President’s dismal approval. He spoke to us on condition of anonymity. A new poll released Monday shows a startling slip for the President’s approval rating, dipping to a all-time low of “negative one bazillion”, according to a CBS News press release. The survey, conducted among not just likely voters but “adults”, also included a representative sampling of hillbillies, senators, small appliances and...

A Pew Global Attitudes survey conducted in India found that 71 percent have a favorable view of the United States. 54 percent say they have a lot or some confidence that Bush will generally do the right thing in world affairs. This report was assailed by CBS News as inaccurate, even if not fake by Phil Lacius, head of the network's Center for Bogus Stories. "This report is based on raw Q & A responses," said Lacious. "No one has smoothed the data or made adjustments for bias. So, while technically these data are not fake, their failure to correspond...