RatherBiased.com Reveals CBS Hypocrisy

NewsMax.com ^ | 13 May 2004 | Staff Writer

[txradioguy]

"CBS Evening News" anchor Dan Rather has decreed that the video showing al-Qaida terrorists beheading American contractor Nick Berg will not be shown in its entirety on his network, though the network has had no such problem in the past broadcasting other grisly images.

Reports the Web site dedicated to monitoring Rather's broadcasts, RatherBiased.com:

"The decision - made first by the staff of the CBS Evening News, including managing editor Dan Rather - now an official news division policy, came on the same night [Tuesday] that the network announced it was going to air footage of an American casually talking about killing Iraqi prisoners on tonight's 60 Minutes II program."

While CBS decided to keep its focus on the Iraqi prison scandal, audio of Berg's execution was broadcast on talk radio repeatedly on Wednesday, in local venues as well as on nationally syndicated broadcasts such as the Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity shows.

RatherBiased.com noted that while CBS deemed the Berg beheading too gruesome for a full airing, it had no such qualms about showing grisly images in the past - such as a video of a South Vietnamese soldier shooting a Vietcong officer in the head.

For that episode CBS even "produced a special report on the event, complete with a play-by-play narration from correspondent John Lawrence," noted RatherBiased.com.

Just three weeks ago, Mr. Rather's other CBS production, "48 Hours," broadcast gruesome still photos of Princess Di as she lay dying after an August 1997 car crash in Paris.

The photos sparked near-universal outrage in the British press. No other U.S. TV outlets dared show the horrific images. Mohamed Al Fayed, father of Diana's paramour, Dodi Al Fayed, denounced the network for its publicity stunt and filed a lawsuit claiming defamation.

[txradioguy]

Glad to see that stuff about Liberal media bias was nothing more than someone's overactive imagination.

[South40]

RatherBiased.com Reveals CBS Hypocrisy

Five minutes of watching See-BS does just the same.

[adam_az]

Dan who?

;)

[freebilly]

Oh, Rather is so BW (Before Web)....

[Dog]

I just watched the Nick Berg video.....I can see why the video won't be shown on the Old Media....it is very explosive. My blood is still boiling from watching it.

[txradioguy]

I'm waiting to hear some kind of explanation of why the media thinks it's ok to show coffins and not what happens to four American contractors....why they think it's ok to show dumb pictures from a few knuckle head soldiers but totally turn a blind eye to the murder of Nick Berg barely 48 hours after it happened?

[Smartass]

Dan Rather CBS Spinmeister and Liberal-Left-Wing Liar.

[dan1123]

More people need to realize that the newscasts that they watch are filtered for political purposes.

The biggest problem with seeing the filtering, is that they are all similarly filtered. Major newspapers and television newscasts are all consistent among each other, and whoever takes the effort to compare sees that and concludes that they all can't be biased in the same way, therefore they are not biased.

Furthermore, the constant exposure permeates culture to the point of core liberal beliefs being espoused in non-news television shows and movies. Being entirely surrounded, the American public is almost unable to see what is going on, and the people who espouse the opposite are then marginalized as lunatics or conspiracy theorists.

Even the "conservative" cable news is moderate, and furthermore does not permeate the culture very well. More 20 somethings get their news from Jay Leno's monologue and Comedy Central's Daily Show. What we really need is a Daily Show style program with a cross between a stand-up comedian and Ann Coulter as the host.

[Ladysmith]

[breakem]

and heaven knows we can't have millions of americans bllod boil, we might ask for the government to kick somebody's butt

[R. Scott]

He’s just following in the footsteps of the other … uh … journalist(?) who is idolized by so many “reporters” today, Walter (Friend of Hanoi) Cronkite.

[Smartass]

Good one. That pic pretty much sums up the pitiful media.
I added you to my PING list.

[R. Scott]

It was worth chasing the links to see his decked.

[R. Scott]

"I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to 'smack,' and quickly."
"I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas."
--Dan Rather in Ladies' Home Journal, July 1980 edition.

This explains a lot. I would say he is still curious.

[Maceman]

I can see why the video won't be shown on the Old Media....it is very explosive. My blood is still boiling from watching it.

You can bet that if the footage had been of US soldiers beheading an Iraqi prisoner, they would be running it on the air 24/7.

[GSWarrior]

I found myself watching CBS last night....after about 5 minutes a plug for the local news was aired and there was the picture....leash girl with her prisoners. Then I realized what I was doing and quickly changed the channel.

[txradioguy]

"You can bet that if the footage had been of US soldiers beheading an Iraqi prisoner, they would be running it on the air 24/7."

Not to mention it would be on the cover of every magazine and fromt page above the fold on every newspaper!

[Smartass]

I read two very dumb people in that story.
1) Dumb Dan to try heroin!
2) The dumber cop to give dumb Dan a fix...in the Houston police station!
Maybe, that's why all of the curious dopes at CBS are 15 degrees out of plumb.

[R. Scott]

I guess it's OK if a Cop is your dealer. If you do it out of "curiosity", you’re not really doing junk.