CBS Affiliate Response

[ProtectOurFreedom]

With some most excellent help from FReepers, I composed (plagiarized may be more like it!) the following letter to to CBS Affiliate, KPIX, San Francisco...

Dan Rather and CBS News President Andrew Heyward issued an “apology” Monday saying "We made a mistake in judgment, and for that I am sorry. It was an error that was made, however, in good faith and in the spirit of trying to carry on a CBS News tradition of investigative reporting without fear or favoritism…It was a mistake CBS News deeply regrets. Also, personally and directly, I am sorry."

I’m sorry, but Rather's "apology" smacks of condescension and smarmy faux remorse. He slanders with glee and he's only sorry he got caught. He definitely is not sorry if he still maintains that the documents are authentic, which he was saying as last as last night. He's only sorry that CBS News chose to quit backing his fantasy and he’s only sorry that the forged memos are not authentic.

I have lost all confidence in CBS news and have quit watching it entirely. My friends and I are continuing our boycott of all KPIX CBS5 sponsors until CBS and Rather apologize for falsely smearing our President. I hope there’s a special place in Hell reserved for members of the Fourth Estate that conspire with the Democrats to steal a national election.

And the response received this evening...

Thank you for writing to CBS 5. As you are probably aware, there is an independent review panel of this matter and the findings will be made public. Your comment has also been forwarded to the network at CBS News.

Akilah Monifa
Director of Communications
CBS 5/UPN Bay Area
KPIX/KBHK Television
855 Battery St.
San Francisco, CA 94111-1597

[AVNevis]

Typical Forum Letter Responce

[Mike Bates]

Most responsive, don't you think?

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[JoJo Gunn]

A similar thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1225320/posts

[tangomike]

I sent an email to KPIX, got the exact same form letter response back.

If they have a form response, odds are pretty good they are getting a lot of viewer response.

[JoeBob2004]

How many people do you suppose are named Akilah Monifa and of those, how many live in the SFO area? Hint: Google.

[Pete'sWife]

As you are probably aware, there is an independent review panel of this matter and the findings will be made public.

Affiliates will be using that as a crutch 'til the the last wheel falls off the wagon.

[GOPJ]

Call your local affiliate -- keep it short and sweet. They'll hear you.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"How many people do you suppose are named Akilah Monifa and of those, how many live in the SFO area?

I Googled her when I got my first response from her. She's a real piece of work, huh? There's certainly no mystery about how the leftist bias gets into the MSM when you hire people like Monifa.

[Casloy]

I suspect it's not the content of the critical letters that count, it's the number of those letters. I seriously doubt they are getting too many letters telling them "great job on the forged docs, Dan."

[Sipicaknobius]

CBS claims that it sells its advertizing slots in bundles and the "Advertizer" doesn't really know where or when their Ad will appear on TV. However, every "Advertizer" does know that it is buying time from CBS. Therefore I sent the following email to my local CBS affiliate and to various companies that place commercials on the CBS channel:

As long as your station, a CBS affiliate continues to subscribe to Dan Rather, I will not watch your station. Just as I have deleted the shopping channels and several other channels from my remote, I have now deleted Channel 8. Every time I click my remote I jump right over channel 8. I watch none of your programming.

If your station continues its support for somebody who, (in my opinion knowingly) used fraudulent and questionable documents for the express purpose of affecting a presidential election under the guise of news, then your integrity is also in question. The political agenda of Dan Rather is quite obvious; he has become a propaganda arm of the DNC. He is no longer a reporter of fact, but fiction.

If this is what you support as news, then your judgment is as blurred as that of Rather.

Yours Respectfully,

[Graymatter]

Independent review? You bet there is. It's called "capitalism."

[Kryptonite]

Holy cow. I am speechless.

Akilah Monifa, lesbian of color, is a regular contributor to AlterNet on issues of race and social justice and happens to be Director of Communications for this CBS affiliate.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Her activities on News Watch are a real hoot! ...

Ms. Monifa is on the Advisory Council of News Watch, a project of the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism of the San Francisco State University Journalism Department. News Watch is funded by a grant from The Ford Foundation. The News Watch mission is:

1. to promote healthy candid dialogue among journalists, journalism students and journalism educators regarding coverage of people, issues and communities which have been the victim of biased reporting or ignored by the news media. [Could this possibly mean Conservatives, SBVT, VVT?]

2. to examine both good and bad coverage in ways that help us learn lessons [I'm sure they will be examining the CBS debacle very closey]

3. to seek out or develop resources which will help all journalists do a better job at covering our complex, diverse world. [Such as the multitude of pajama-clad researchers the world over that are now holding all those MSM feet to the fire. Or maybe they will purchase all the used 1972 IBM Selectric typewriters as a "resource to help journalists do a better job" of forging documents]

With ultra left-wing people and organizations such as these pursuing this agenda, it's no wonder the MSM is toast.