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Bob Scheiffer has an unaffected style and no apparent bias. He is turning out to be a very watchable anchor.

Dan Rather's farewell... cartoon by FReeper IPWGOP (aka Linda Eddy) click here for really large version This is an email-able, copyright-ready graphic you can use in emails, on blogs, in flyers, on posters... anything that's noncommercial.

Pajama Party...Dan Rather officially resigns as anchor of CBS News. cartoon by FReeper IPWGOP (aka Linda Eddy) click here for really large version This is an email-able, copyright-ready graphic you can use in emails, on blogs, in flyers, on posters... anything that's noncommercial.

Bill would deny U.S. citizenship to children of illegal immigrants By: EDWARD SIFUENTES - Staff WriterA bill recently introduced in Congress would deny U.S. citizenship to children born to illegal immigrants. Supporters said the bill, called the Citizenship Reform Act of 2005, would be a good way to control the number of people who have the right to claim citizenship ---- and the rights and benefits that come with it. Opponents said the measure was "extreme" and would be likely to face constitutional challenges. An estimated 200,000 to 300,000 children are born to illegal immigrants in the United States each...

NBC NEWS TODAY SHOW CO-HOST KATIE COURIC HAS BEEN APPROACHED ABOUT CBS NEWS ANCHOR JOB, NETWORK SOURCE TELLS TIME Sun Jan 16 2005 11:00:51 ET --- CBS Rumored to be Interested in ABC News Nightline Anchor Ted Koppel -- CBS Rising Star Mika Brzezinski, Daughter of President Carter’s National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, is Dark Horse Candidate -- CNN’s Anderson Cooper Could Be in Running New York – Four CBS News staff members lost their jobs last week in the wake of an independent-panel report that found serious flaws in the journalism that led to a 60 Minutes Wednesday story...

Catastrophic Coverups... Hall of FameCBS gives Gunga Dan the boot! This is an email-able, copyright-ready graphic you can use in emails, on blogs, in flyers, on posters... anything that's noncommercial.

For some veterans of CBS News, the departure of Dan Rather from the network's evening newscast represents a kind of coda on a long, sad song of decline from greatness. The news organization that did the most to define broadcast news from the early days of radio through the golden age of television in the 1950's and 1960's has gone through a marked falloff in the last 15 years, probably suffering more than any other network from the shrinking of resources that matched its shrinking audiences. But the notion that Mr. Rather's decision to give up his anchor job is...

If you don't think our Congress is taking Americans for a ride, think again. According to Dr. Madeleine Cosman, "At least 300,000 to 350,000 anchor babies annually become citizens of California." In 1994, 74,987 anchor babies in maternity units cost taxpayers $215 million in Stockton, California. In 2003, 70% of the 2,300 babies born in San Joaquin General maternity ward were from illegal aliens. That number has exploded today with over three million illegal aliens residing in California.

Boat anchor + garden hose + lost keys in lake = near disaster By The Associated Press (6/03/04 - KANSAS CITY, MO) — A man who nearly drowned while trying to retrieve his car keys from a lake bottom -- using a garden hose to breathe -- will try again Thursday with a trained diver. Want more? Check out the Bizarre-chives! Michael Hatfield, 54, lost his car keys in Longview Lake on Memorial Day. The Missouri State Water Patrol said he used the hose to snorkel 30-feet below the surface, with a 20-pound boat anchor tied to his waist to...

NEW YORK (AP) — CNN's Aaron Brown took a step into political activism this week, saying it was "unconscionable and indefensible" for House leadership to deny an extension to the Sept. 11 commission. Brown urged viewers Thursday night to protest the decision — less than 24 hours before House Speaker Dennis Hastert agreed to give the independent panel investigating the attacks an extra two months to finish its report. "Perhaps the speaker and his team assume you do not care," Brown said. "I hope they're wrong. I hope you care enough to write them and e-mail them and call them...

Fabulously wealthy Teresa Heinz, wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, dishes an earful to writer Lisa DePaulo in the upcoming issue of Elle magazine -- such as her ambivalence about taking her second husband's surname and her requirement of a prenuptial agreement with the 59-year-old Massachusetts senator, whom she wed in 1995. "Now, politically, it's going to be Teresa Heinz Kerry, but I don't give a [bleep], you know?" explains the 64-year-old Heinz, who generally uses the surname of the late senator John Heinz (R-Pa.), who was killed in a 1991 plane crash. "There are other things to worry...

<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The district attorney has decided not to file charges against KNTV news anchor Terilyn Joe for allegedly throwing eggs and tomatoes at landscapers working outside her home.</p> <p>San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan said there was not enough evidence to show Joe threw food at workers outside of her Russian Hill condominium on Memorial Day.</p>

Ohio anchor files age-discrimination suit Broadcasting & Cable 5/31/02 10:19:00 AMLongtime Columbus, Ohio, anchor Pete Scovill is suing his former employers, WSYX(TV) and WTTE(TV), charging age discrimination and harassment. The 56-year-old Scovill claimed that after he was rejected as a candidate for news director in favor of the younger David Silverstein, Silverstein then harassed him to get him to leave the station.Scovill left the station in February, reportedly on medical leave.Silverstein could not be reached for comment.

Philly station hit with discrimination suit Broadcasting & Cable 5/31/02 10:26:00 AMKYW-TV Philadelphia reporter Beverly Williams is suing the station, charging race, sex and age discrimination. Williams first raised the issues before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission a few years ago. After they were unresolved by the agencies, she took the station to court.The CBS-owned station in the No. 4 market denied any wrongdoing and said it will vigorously defend itself.Typically, stations cite market research, job performance and change in direction behind on-air changes, and ratings-troubled KYW-TV has made many on-air changes over the...

<p>It's the kind of light, humorous story that news anchors love to have to spice up their telecast: Local celebrity lands in hot water for chucking produce at workers making a ruckus outside her bedroom window.</p> <p>Only Wednesday, it was a bright with a bonus to several Bay Area broadcasters: The celeb in question is one of their own.</p>