Posted on 09/25/2004 5:00:06 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
With careers in jeopardy, 'the knives have come out' at CBS News. Rather's job seems safe, but he's fighting to keep it.
....Internally, CBS News appears to have moved from "What went wrong?" to "Who gets the blame?" With careers hanging in the balance and the reputation of the news division on the line, "the knives have come out," said one insider.
Many insiders think that Rather, who is 72 and has more than two years to run on his contract, will keep his job and that Mapes will bear much of the blame. She has not responded to requests for interviews.
But Rather's survival is not a given. Names are being bandied about in the corridors of the news division of possible interim replacements, although CBS News spokeswoman Sandy Genelius said it was "categorically false" that contingency plans had been drawn up.
Rather is fighting for his job. The anchor and CBS News President Andrew Heyward both showed up Wednesday at a party for ABC's Barbara Walters, with Rather's entrance in particular causing a frisson among the media heavyweights in the room. When Walters told Rather in front of the crowd that he had the support of the room for his stellar career, Heyward was among those applauding, according to a report in the New York Daily News.
Behind the scenes, however, fierce debates have been taking place among many of the division's top executives and reporters who appear on camera over who did what and when, and, in particular, how much blame Heyward — as opposed to his deputies — should shoulder, and whether he stacked the deck by selecting a panel member with seeming conflicts of interest.
Rather reacted angrily Wednesday when..
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Resolve it in favor of truth and justice in America. Fire both of those incompetent anti-america zealots.
They just don't get it.
That's okay- if someone does find plans, she can always say they were forgeries.
No action short of firing Rather would be appropriate. Rather can finger others, but ultimately, it was he who went on the air with the story. If this documents had been real and had caused damage to the Bush campaign, you can be sure Rather would have accepted credit.
Best bet for Viacom is to simply shut down the entire CBS News division.
Ohhhhhh, brother.
Absence of succession planning for critical/key people in an organization is dereliction of duty to the shareholders. Everybody is replaceable, and life has a way of dealing surprising events.
They are all happy, safe and warm aboard the Titanic.
Yeh...right!
Reminds me of that fat, sweaty H'wood producer in Doonesbury who used to end his conversations with: "Luv ya, Babe....mean it sincerely!"
What ye sow, so shall ye reap.
Rather may skate and keep his job but his reputation is shot and SeeBS news will continue down the drain of liars as long as the good people of this country don't allow their despicable acts to be forgotten.
It's a new day in America. Power to the people!
"They are all happy, safe and warm aboard the Titanic."
Shhh...don't say that until it's completely sunk!! ;)
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I think the major papers are checking bugmenot and cancelling those accounts almost as fast as they're added - none of them worked for me a couple of days ago. I'm just using a junkmail address & setting up my own henceforward, then keeping them in a text file on my pc so I don't forget them.
Yeah, gee golly, Dan-o. Your fellow newsreaders are clapping for you. Must be swell. Bet you just puffed up with pride.
Of course, doesn't matter that you took your entire news organization down the crapper, that America is turning your network off in droves, and that the only ones who are defending you are fellow airheaded, droolingly-leftist newsreaders (ahem......"heavyweights", right?? in their own minds.).
CBS still hasn't retracted the story.
The Six Stages of a Project --
1. Wild Enthusiasm - Check
2. Denial - Check
3. Hopeless Despair - Check
4. Search for the Guilty - Check
5. Blame of the Innocent- Soon
6. Praise and Honor for Nonparticipants
So I guess Heyward was supposed to say - "Yo Rather, I gotcha career right heeeeeer."
And oh yeah. "Stellar career." What a buncha morons. Have they seens his ratings lately? It's more like a cellar career!
Walters' statement reveald more about her than Rather. She is a real sleazeball. She has given a forum to Monica the geek, Amy Schlossberg (sp.?) the child killer's parents, and Mary Kay the demented pedophile.
Now she apparently is supporting Rather.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1225723/posts
The Fall
National Review Online ^ | September 24, 2004 | Victor Davis Hanson
He gets it and explains how this came to be.
Maybe she'll respond to a subpoena or two. OTOH, she doesn't seem to mind jail time.
I think Danny-boy is a goner too, no matter how hard he tries to hang on. Ratings are what matter and CBS' are in the basement and searching for the sub-cellar.
How long can cBS let that trend continue?
Smart business practices tell you that it takes more $ to win a customer back than to keep one. Sooner or later they still have to clean up the mess. The question is, how much messier do they want it to get before they start
This will be the new spin: Thornburgh is the puppet of Karl Rove. Of course, this ignores the fact that Thornburgh stiffed Rove on the bill for his services in 1991.
You can be sure that no one will get blamed that can do any damage to Blather. In other words, no one that can say..."Rather knew what was going on the whole time".
And Rove sued him personally!
Everyone fears "The Emperor" Dan.
My 74 year old father cannot understand why CBS didn't dump him at least a decade ago. He thinks Dan has incriminating info on
the powers that be at CBS.
He just shakes his head when I relate the stories about Dan - "Kenneth", Connie Chung, daughter in bed with the Dems, etc.
After all, for most there are housing mortages and car payments and the Poconos time share lodge and Buffy's abortion and what not to attend to.
"DAMNED if Joe down the hall is going to go scott free and I'M going to get the ax over this."
So typical of elite libs with phony smiles and "Let's have lunch" amongst themselves. Now people will REALLY know who their friends were in the bowels of CBS.
I imagine a phenominal fiasco that started in a Kinkos in Texas (forged documents sent) will end in a Kinkos in Mid-town Manhattan frantic CBS staffers getting their resumes out)!
"Of course, this ignores the fact that Thornburgh stiffed Rove on the bill for his services in 1991."
And then Rove sued and won...
North Vietnamese Communists' most trusted man in America used real film footage from the Tet Offensive over and over showing North Vietnam's Viet Cong fighters in Saigon.
No sir. Cronkite just reported the "news." To wit, it's hopeless, the oppressed people of South Vietnam do not want the American killings and crimes (destroy a village to save a village) to continue, "disengage" now! Let the oppressed people of South Vietnam be free of their government's corruption and violence.
Post-war reports from the North Vietnamese themselves credit people like their most trusted man in America for keeping them in the war knowing that their "most valuable guerrillas" were actually in America.
No peace talks following the virtual destruction of the Viet Cong in 1968. The war continued. Hundreds of thousands more died. Millions were to die after the North Vietnamese Communists' guerrillas in America did their job.
That is the way it was, IMO.
I believe Mr. David Horowitz has a new book that relates our domestic enemies' actions today to their very successful Vietnam campaign.
But, hey! Enough of this Vietnam era crap. As one Freeper, et al. put it, I can't wait until all them old people die so we can stop talking about the Vietnam war. (Damn guerrillas are still here, IMO.)
No "Rather Chair of Journalism" at Columbia.
No "Rather Scholarships for Young Journalists."
No "Rather Center for Journalism and Politics" at Harvard
You can think of more, I'm sure.
(steely)
Heyward's applause at a party means little. It's what he's holding behind his back that counts.
I hope the little people at CBS who will lose their jobs because the news division is falling apart, will applaud keeping Dan the Man on. Useful idiots. Who's paying Mary Mape's legal bills, by the way? TerAYsa?
This is the equivalent of the Democrat's post-impeachment rally for Clinton. Sure, Clinton managed to beat the rap, but he is and will always be a laughing stock. Ditto for Rather.
"...the reputation of the news division on the line..."
The reputation of the news division hasn't been on the line for a couple of weeks - it's no longer under their control - they're toast.
I agree. Shut the news division down and basically start over. But that would require "courage." CBS? Courage? Naw.
An amazing article by Hanson ..Should be nailed to every door at CBS..
Exactly right. Dan's 72 years old. Even without his memogate bomb, the actuaries on 72 year old men is what it is. If SeeBS didn't have someone waiting in the wings, the stockholders should chew them a new one.
Perhaps Heyward isn't being a "rude vile pig" and the reporter is reading way too much into it
Neither truth, integrity, facts, evidence, nor reality ever stood in the way of a story promoting her extremist leftwingnut agenda. And that applies to all the MSM.
And they wonder why they're dieing.
You're right. This is more BS from CBS. If they don't have anyone waiting in the wings they deserve to go out of business. And if Dan Rather doesn't get the axe, it will be crystal clear that CBS has a death wish.
"Mapes will bear much of the blame. She has not responded to requests for interviews."
Let's see, I thought 60 Minutes and the other news magazines were experts at catching people as they leave work, restaurants, and home and asking questions. Where are those people now who care so much about the truth and getting to the bottom of the story now that it involves one of their own!
By appointing the outside commission, CBS has relinquished control. The report of the commission will determine who stays and who goes.
How biased is that commission ?
Maybe Cronkhead, like Clinton, wants a respectable legacy. History will write otherwise.
That's like a bunch of streetwalkers insisting they're still virgins.
Wait... that's Dan Rather!
Oh well, ta-ta Kenneth.
(ps; Yo Dan, I hear the Workers World Daily is hiring.)
"How biased is that commission?"
I've been wondering....Is this "panel" or "commission" or whatever it is, going to limit their investigation to just CBS misdeeds? Or are they going to delve into the "story" itself and make a determination as to whether the Guard story has legs? Perhaps I'm just being too pessimistic.
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