Posted on 09/18/2004 2:41:25 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
Dan Rather is now the Ted Baxter of CBS - without the quiet dignity
(Thanks Ann Coulter for that descritpion)
The CBS producer hinted that there is "more to come". In a phone call on Thursday morning, Mary Mapes called Seattle's KVI 570 talk radio host John Carlson. Her call was in response to his comments in a Wall Street Journal article about Mrs. Mapes. John previously worked with Mary at KIRO TV News in Seattle in the early '90's.
According to John Carlson during his show on Thursday, Mary Mapes had called Mr. Carlson that morning to discuss the article, talk about the CBS Guard story, and about her father, Dennis Mapes. There were confidential words exchanged and there was public information that John was at liberty to share. And share he did that Mary had heard that her (conservative) father had called into John's radio show to share his sadness for how his liberal daughter went astray. And when John asked her about the fake documents she dodged the question. Then insisted that there is more to the (CBS Guard memo) story that needs to be told and will be told.
The John Carlson Show is available online. Go to:
http://www.kvi.com/x2977.xml?ParentPageID=x3155&ContentID=x7086&Layout=KVI.xsl&AdGroupID=x3500
f. them, SeeBS will NOT pull it off!
I hear you!
Thank you!
Rather is already a word. The only way to make it stick is to make it distictive. ratherish, ratherite, rathered, rathidence (rather evidence), *rathero* (rather memo - I like the way that one looks.)
That is what I'm waiting for.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=762&e=1&u=/ap/20040926/ap_en_tv/tv_cbs_fallout
Viewership for the "CBS Evening News" during the week the Sept. 8 "60 Minutes" report on Bush's service was aired was down 8 percent from the same week in 2003, according to Nielsen Media Research. The next week, it was down 9 percent. ... "CBS Evening News" ratings are falling faster this year than either of its competitors. CBS is already a distant third to NBC and ABC, and the gap is getting wider.
... Privately, there's considerable sentiment that "the time has passed" for change, as one manager said.
"They need to phase Dan out in the most compassionate and appropriate way they can," said another executive.
"I don't think there's a connection there between him and the viewers we want any more," said a third. "I think the show needs an overhaul and generally what comes with an overhaul is a new face."
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