November 23, 2004

New CNN Exec Wants Anchors to Show More Passion
Everyone remember this genius?
He's the one who stated on TV that bloggers were only "guys who sat around in their living rooms in their pajamas" in regards to exposing the fake "60 Minutes" documents about President Bush's TANG service.
Now he wants Aaron Brown to have "passion?"
Aaron Brown wouldn't have passion if you shot him through with 50,000 volts.
How delightful that CNN thinks this clown can save their news shows and get their ever-declining ratings back up...The MSM still isn't "getting it" because they don't want to.
I don't think we've made them hurt badly enough yet, because look at this weasel move today by Dan Rather and CBS (also in response to that same "60 Minutes II" forged-document episode...or maybe not):
Dan Rather to Leave 'CBS Evening News'
This is giving the American public nothing!
Dan is only stepping down as anchor and managing editor, a retirement that was planned long before the explosive events of late summer.
He'll remain as a contributor and correspondent to both "60 Minutes" shows and CBS news in general.

The announcement that he will step down comes months after he and CBS News came under fire for a report on "60 Minutes II" that questioned President George W. Bush's service in the Texas National Guard. The report, which aired Sept. 8 during the heated presidential campaign, was based on memos that cast doubt on Bush's service.

Immediately after the report aired, critics pointed to indications the documents had been forged. After initially defending the report, Rather said CBS could not prove the authenticity of the documents and made an on-air apology to viewers.

CBS did not mention the controversy in today's announcement.

ABC is happy to report this because they believe they can throw their "brother" Dan and CBS News to the mob (that's us!) and still remain unscathed themselves or better yet, emerge as more "fair, balanced and honest."
Nice try.
And as Hindrocket at Powerline points out, where is the report about that internal investigation of this incident that CBS promised us all?
*Crickets*
They think we've forgotten.
I say that we haven't.
The Pajamahadeen may always be in their jammies, but we never sleep!