[wagglebee]

"I stopped watching it some time ago," the ex-network news boss writes in today's Los Angeles Times. "The unremitting liberal orientation finally became too much for me."

I'd love to see this on billboards everywhere.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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...If SAUTER tells us thru the Los Angeles Times that LIBERAL DAN RATHER is a LIBERAL...

...then why does the Los Angeles Times own Media Critic DAVID SHAW still tell us that:

RATHER's work 'Shoddy, Slipshod' not LIBERAL..?

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1227809/posts

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[Captain Peter Blood]

When this guy, who was the President of CBS News, says there is a bias and even he doesn't watch it anymore you know Bernard Goldberg is telling the truth and the old networks are truly dinosaurs.

[Bush2000]

But that could lead to "a lot of scrupulously impartial . . . news sources, managed by research-driven executives who find it a good marketing approach." Ultimately, says Sauter, "banality will trump opinion."

I think that what people really want from their newscasters is a return to common sense -- and that's sorely lacking in CBS and other members of the MSM. Here's a perfect example: Not long ago, Reuters, AP, and other news organizations (including CBS) made the decision that they were going to stop using terminology that could be construed to mean taking a position on a particular news story. For example, to stop using the term "terrorist" and start using "insurgent". Now, I don't know about you, but it's fairly obvious to the average person that an individual who intentionally targets and kills innocent civilians for the purpose of terrorizing them is a "TERRORIST", not an "insurgent". This notion is neither liberal nor conservative. It's reality. The fact that it happens to be held by our government seems to trouble the mainstream media -- and there's the rub. The media refuses to take a position held by the government -- even when that position is dictated by common sense -- merely because to do so would mean they supposedly aren't objective. What a ridiculous mindset. It will continue to result in people switching to more sensible stations such as Fox. The morons at CBS can't seem to understand this.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I would vote for former CBS News president Van Gordon Sauter as an ACTUAL unimpeachable source.

[Seaplaner]

They abhor the media and perceive it as an escalating threat to the society.

Mea culpa.

[wildbill]

Any liink to the actual story--or was this a letter to the editor?

[Faraday]

"They abhor the media and perceive it as an escalating threat to the society."

I resemble that remark. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.

[eureka!]

Sweet. The best part: this quote will get back to cBS and Blather. Sure, they'll dismiss it but they know they are over. They have a legacy now that they did not envision. Sweet....