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In a discussion related to comparing White House communications offices in Dem and GOP administrations, CBS News Chief White House correspondent Bill Plante said last week: "The media is mostly left-leaning. It is difficult to turn out graduates in majors relating to the media who are at the right of the political spectrum. So the media gets to be leaning to the liberal side. ...The Democratic party sees the media as their ally." Obviously he has not read the various temper tantrums thrown by the likes of Eric Alterman who insist the media is not liberal.

Skull And Bones Oct. 5, 2003 There are secrets that George W. Bush guards at least as carefully as any entrusted to a president. He's forbidden to share these secrets even with the vice president -- secrets he has held ever since his days as an undergraduate at Yale. In his senior year, Mr. Bush - like his father and his grandfather - belonged to Skull and Bones, an elite secret society that includes some of the most powerful men of the 20th century. All Bonesmen, as they're called, are forbidden to reveal what goes on in their inner sanctum,...

Rather's Anti-Recall Plea2003-10-07 03:00:10 ET Voters Needed to stop 'Republican Schwarzenegger'-- The California recall is the biggest story of the moment and that was certainly true at last night's Evening News. After devoting the first two stories of his broadcast about the election, the anchorman decided to add one more thing. Harking back to the days when he routinely used "Republican" as the first name of former independent counsel Kenneth Starr, Rather sounded an ominous note about California's political future, and what needed to be done: "You may want to note that among political professionals, there is a wide-spread...

There was a time when voting was cool. A time when a presidential candidate stumped for support by playing his sax; when MTV, Madonna and R.E.M. were adding to the political discourse and candidates were addressing the concerns of young adults. A time - a decade ago now - when Rock the Vote, a nonpartisan organization that registers young people to vote, was creating a buzz. Now its leaders say it's their time again, and as the 2004 election nears, they are making plans to elbow back onto the political and pop cultural stage. Founded in 1990 by record company...

Voter apathy being what it is in America, voter registration drives are often lauded for their altruistic goal of engaging more people in the democratic process. Among such efforts are those of Rock the Vote, which aims to get more young people involved in voting and politics. Promoted heavily on the rock music video cable channel MTV, Rock the Vote's very first introductory line is simple and straight forward: "Rock the Vote is a non-profit, non-partisan organization, founded in 1990." Given this up front pronouncement of being non-partisan, people who know absolutely anything at all about the American political landscape...

<p>Walter Cronkite was a CBS News anchorman for almost two decades. He has been a syndicated newspaper columnist for fewer than two weeks. Already, though, he has addressed one of journalism’s most serious issues, and in a much more candid manner than was ever possible for him behind the anchor desk.</p>

Fleischer: Media Driving 'Overblown' Uranium Story: In a July 17 appearance on the Late Show With David Letterman retiring Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer discussed the reaction of reporters like CBS's Roberts to the uranium controversy, and said of the disputed words, "This one issue, we didn't have solid enough information for it to be made into the president's speech. But if ever there was an issue that was dramatically, ridiculously exaggerated and overblown, it's this one." Letterman then wondered how long the stories would last: LETTERMAN: When something like this happens, a little eruption like this--and everybody [the...

An elderly political activist, repeatedly portrayed by CBS News as a typical victim of the high cost of prescription drugs, now admits the network "probably" should have disclosed her lobbying interests. Viola Quirion, who favors the Medicare changes that would provide elderly Americans such as herself with a taxpayer-subsidized prescription drug plan, might not be considered a typical senior citizen to many people - given her extensive political lobbying background, which includes advocating on behalf of Alliance for Retired Persons. But that's the way she was portrayed by CBS News on at least three occasions since 1999, most recently in...

Hillary is coming to red square (technically it's Harvard square) this monday. she will be at the Charles Park Hotel, across from Wordsworth bookstore on Brattle street. Her Heiness will be there at 12:00pm (noon), so i suggest getting there around 11:15/11:30am. I know many of us have to work but if the lefties can make it, we can too. when you get there i'll be the 16 year old, flag bearing, sign holding, politically motivated t-shirt wearing, republican with a big smile on my face. PLEASE TRY TO MAKE IT p.s. - i put New Hampshire as a topic...

Forgive the Vanity, is anyone else disappointed that the Boston Pops has gone to CBS and there show has been cut from 2 1/2 hours to one. Will A&E did a pretty good job with the NSO, even if they had a few cliches at the start. I also did mis the 105's during the 1812 overture.

If it's allowed to stand, an FCC ruling will feed media merger mania BY BILL CLINTON "It's your money," says President Bush when he promotes tax cuts. I disagree with his tax policy but admire his spin. The same argument applies with greater force to whether big media conglomerates should be allowed to control more television and radio stations: "It's your airwaves." The American people own the bandwidth that broadcast media companies use to deliver programs to our TV and radio sets. Because the space on that bandwidth is limited, the Federal Communications Commission regulates who has access to our...

Former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton tell-all memoir 'Living History' sold about 200,000 copies on its first day of publication, the book's pulbisher said on Tuesday. Simon and Schuster says sales have been so brisk they are ordering another 300,000 copies of the book to be printed on top of the 1 million copies which were printed for Monday's launch.Barnes and Noble the world largest bookseller, said 'Living History' set a one day sales record on Monday for a non fiction book at its stores.The company in a statement said it shifted 40,000 copies in just 24 hours at retail...

CBS Television is promoting tonight's debut of "The Amazing Race 4" by proudly proclaiming a male homosexual couple on the show to be married to each other. The primetime reality show features 12 teams of two people with a pre-existing relationship racing around the world in a quest for a million-dollar prize. 'Married' male couple on CBS In current promotional ads on the air, the network touts one of the teams – consisting of two men – as ''The Married Couple.'' "Yes, they are a married, gay couple," a CBS spokeswoman tells WorldNetDaily. "They're married and they're gay. Is there...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Baghdad bunker which the United States said it bombed on the opening night of the Iraq (news - web sites) war in a bid to kill Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) never existed, CBS Evening News reported Wednesday. The network quoted a U.S. Army colonel in charge of inspecting key sites in Baghdad as saying no trace of a bunker or of bodies had been found at the site on the southern outskirts of the Iraqi capital, known as Dora Farms. "When we came out here, the primary thing they were looking for was an...

It's Sweepstime For Hitler, But Winter for Truthby Ron Rosenbaum It's springtime, I mean sweepstime, for Hitler in Hollywood. I'm sure you've all heard of the forthcoming two-night, four-hour, prime-time CBS "Miniseries Event" called Hitler: The Rise of Evil (airing May 18 and 20). Well I've finally seen a review copy of the controversial "docudrama," and there's a lot I could say - and may say in the future - about the soap opera-fication of the Hitler story.But there's a drama behind the docudrama that hasn't received the attention it deserves. A story about the political uses of Hitler and...

TO BE AIRED TONIGHT ON CBS... LOCAL CHANNEL 2 FOR NY METRO AREA TV/CABLE/SATELLITE. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." The theme for HITLER: THE RISE OF EVIL comes from this quote by Edmund Burke. Burke was not a contemporary of Hitler's or Nazi Germany, but rather lived during the time of the American Revolution. Born in 1729 in Dublin, he was a philosopher and statesman who supported human rights issues, was a member of the British Parliament and advocated conciliation towards the American colonists. This quote is ascribed in...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) - This time there was no mistaking it - the chorus of boos wasn't aimed at the boo-ers. The same boisterous lot that made Michael Moore one of the most "searched for" names on the Internet after the Academy Awards was back at it Monday when the Drudge Report said Disney would fund Moore's new anti-George Bush documentary. While virtual chants of "Eisner hates America" and "Boycott all Disney products" reached comical proportions, some people actually tried to maintain some sanity. AnnAkronism was NOT one of those people: "Why would a company who supposedly wants to attract...

<p>May 13, 2003 -- THE battle to land the first sitdown TV interview with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton took on a new twist yesterday.</p> <p>Simon & Schuster, the publisher of Clinton's upcoming memoir, "Living History," has reportedly been feeling out CBS "60 Minutes" about an exclusive interview. But CBS insiders apparently skittish about it because the senator's husband, former President Clinton, is under contract to appear on the news magazine.</p>

POW's Memory Is Casualty Of War WASHINGTON, May 8, 2003 (CBS) It's unlikely that Pfc. Jessica Lynch will ever remember what happened in Iraq when her Army convoy was ambushed and she was taken as a prisoner of war, her doctor said Thursday. This information sheds new light on a small part of the war that has been shrouded in secrecy — with various versions only now emerging about Lynch's injuries nearly seven weeks ago and the commando raid that rescued her April 1. Doctors have completed surgeries for various fractures and broken bones that the 20-year-old Army clerk suffered...

It's getting creepy out there. Paranoia is rampant. The thought police are on patrol, shining their flashlights into the corners of your garages, looking to root out and crush anything resembling dissent. Ken Griffey Jr. was in the dugout last weekend in Cincinnati, and because we all saw him writhe in agony a couple of weeks ago, his dislocated shoulder isn't exactly a state secret. Yet when someone asked how his rehabilitation was going, Junior went all CIA on us. "I'm not allowed to talk about it," he said mysteriously. "I can't say anything." Someone has gotten to Kevin Appier,...