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Home Front: Culture Wars
Black Monday at Black Rock (but Gunga Dan keeps his job)
2005-01-10
First!! :-)
What. Ever. I'm going to go sulk now... ;-)
Four CBS News employees, including three executives, have been ousted for their role in preparing and reporting a disputed story about President Bush's National Guard service.
Blogosphere, take a bow.
The action was prompted by the report of an independent panel that concluded that CBS News failed to follow basic journalistic principles in the preparation and reporting of the piece. The panel also said CBS News had compounded that failure with "rigid and blind" defense of the 60 Minutes Wednesday report.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Asked to resign were Senior Vice President Betsy West, who supervised CBS News primetime programs; 60 Minutes Wednesday Executive Producer Josh Howard; and Howard's deputy, Senior Broadcast Producer Mary Murphy. The producer of the piece, Mary Mapes, was terminated. The correspondent on the story, CBS News anchor Dan Rather, is stepping down as anchor of CBS Evening News.
He shoulda been axed too.
Posted by:John Q. Citizen

#6  Depends, Silentbrick. Is there a way to buy an option on the insurance? ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-01-10 7:29:39 PM  

#5  Hmmmm, maybe the blogosphere should organize a gathering outside of CBS's HQ and chant "No Justice, No Peace." Carry signs that say FU** RATHER and No Blood for Rather.

Of course, then the riot would start and the building would be torched, so maybe it's not a good idea.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2005-01-10 7:00:00 PM  

#4  Yea "they look evil and must be banned." My state banned them already. But the Mexicans politicians in Sacramento don't know their ass for anything but a 38 Super which they want to ban too.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2005-01-10 5:40:46 PM  

#3  SPD, then you missed the one last night that said we are all doomed because anyone can currently buy a .50 Barrets rifle. They forgot to mention that if a .50 can knock down a plane, so could many other rifles. And that .50 rifles have been available for over ten years (at least since the Balkans war) and the thousands owned by legal gun owners have yet to have even killed one person, let alone been used for any terrorist incident.
Posted by: DO   2005-01-10 5:11:50 PM  

#2  Rather is not out as of today. That means they haven't gone all the way. I don't and won't watch CBS. It's been years since 60 min ran in this home. Firing 4 people who I have never heard or doesn't cut it. (I suspect they will be back at work soon anyhow.) Dan needed to go, he didn't. It's a white wash.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2005-01-10 4:06:58 PM  

#1  I watch Fox...but it's not all that much better. I've yet to see much reporting from them on all of the good work being done in Iraq or Afghanistan...schools being built, etc. And when they do sympathetic pieces on the soldiers, they always pick a story that involves death or dismemberment. We read lots of heroic stories or soldier human interest stories on blogs...I've yet to see such a story arising from Fox news that doesn't have some sort of sad undertone to it.

Fox just takes the same stuff CNN does and turns it into a question. Instead of saying, "the US should get out", Fox says, "should the US get out?" Turning from one channel to the next, I see exactly the same anti-US news stories on Fox that I do on CNN or any other MSM channel, with the exception that Fox has phrased it as a question.

Here's how I'd characterize Fox's reporting: "Other's say the cheerleader has a big butt, what do you think?"
Posted by: 2b   2005-01-10 11:08:53 AM  

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