Should Rather resign as anchor of CBS? (NYC paper)

[robbedvoter]

http://www.nynewsday.com/other/special/amny/
The results get printed in tomorrow's issue

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. When Bush resigns for using forgeries in the SOTU

n/t

[trotsky]

5. Most excellent response.

If the wingnuts have got their panties in a wad over using forged documents in a news story, what better way to point out their hypocrisy?

[BootinUp]

2. Hell no.

Not unless he wants to. The story was based on known events.

[goddess40]

3. After Novak resigns too

Bush, Cheney, Powell,Ashcroft... They all have to go first.

[napi21]

4. AT least it's 65% no 34% yes....so far!

I must admit, I am very sad that Rather stuck his neck out, and appears now to have to hang it in shame. I still think the older reporters are so much better tahn the younger ego freaks. Too bad this much scrutiny isn't foisted upon all the others for their erroneous & sometimes fraudulent stories!

[robbedvoter]

7. As I said, it's a NYC paper. Ya know, the "barely Kerry" NY.....

[rocktivity]

6. It's the CBS producer is the one who should be fired

Seems like some basic rules of journalism were broken here. Knowing that they had neither the original documents nor the original source, the producer should have passed.

:headbang:
rocknation

[robbedvoter]

9. You mean , like the 16 minutes of SOTU? yellow cake thingy?

That only led to a war after all - who got fired? (and the story, unlike here, was wrong)

[OneTwentyoNine]

8. Bump---only about 60 responses so far nt

[Shopaholic]

10. And Geraldo Rivera- too--

Anybody remember what Geraldo did on December 6th, 2000?
In a Dec. 6, 2000-televised report, correspondent Geraldo Rivera said he was on "hallowed ground" in Afghanistan where "friendly fire took so many of ... our men and the mujahedeen yesterday." But Rivera later acknowledged that he was several hundred miles from the site. Rivera said he had confused the Kandahar deaths with another "friendly fire" incident that cost several Afghan lives in Tora Bora, but Pentagon information showed the Tora Bora incident occurred at least three days after Rivera's Dec. 6 report.
Gee--that would have been a LIE, wouldn't it?

[OneTwentyoNine]

11. Hell,Whoreraldo should have been SHOT after the Al Capone disaster...nt

[liberalmuse]

12. If Rather resigns...

All the whorish war pig newsreaders should resign or be purged from our airwaves. Personally, I think they should be tarred and feathered for helping Bush drag this country into war, but that's just me.

Do you guys know what's going to happen if Rather is forced to resign over this? No one will dare come out with anything derogatory against * again. I'm livid right now.

[robbedvoter]

15. Bingo! That's precisely the point: intimidation.

[TacticalPeek]

13. Nope, but ABC's Chris Vlasto should, and many other true whores.

http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004_09_19_atrios_archive.html#109576980282074438

[gratuitous]

20. Yeah, why does Chris Vlasto still have a job, then?

Or John Stossel? If Rather is supposed to resign, he's at the tail end of a very long line of folks who should be duck-walked off the plank long before him.

[sam sarrha]

14. that would be 'Belligerent Nationalism.. part of the definition of Fascism

say nothing against Bush...Dans program was nothing more than a disclosure of the fact they were not actual evidence..

why can people see that..?????!!!!!

[gbwarming]

16. Journalism ethics exprts say no big deal on NPR

http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgDate=21-Sep-2004&prgId=3

CBS' Rather Apologizes for Suspect Documents

CBS executives and anchorman Dan Rather say they were misled about documents on President Bush's National Guard duty. Rather has apologized for using what turned out to be suspect documents in a story on President Bush's military service. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports.

(This next one is god too.)

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[Commendatori]

17. I wish he would

Rather retires next year anyway. If he resigns now, he takes a lot of wind out of the only thing the Repugs have to talk about, and they'd have to go back to the issues. Then they'd be screwed, and we could all get drunk on President Kerry's inauguration day.

[candy331]

18. I thought he should resign yesterday but on further

thinking on this thing,I believe CBS and Rather should do a press conference and take questions on the contents only of the memo since they are not in question. Rather should have said yesterday that when the independent council finishes their report, if an apology was warranted they would issue one for the entire saga and not just for the papers itself,now they may have to issue another apology after the investigation, bad move yesterday CBS. If CBS doesn't put up some viable information to counteract this debacle they are history for now and maybe they will never make a serious return. I sure hope they know what they are loosing. Each time they falter they become less reliable and trustworthy. "One that does not stand for something will fall for anything".

[lpbk2713]

19. Done

Damn I'll be glad when November is here so that that I can get that riff-raff out of the White House.

[KurtNYC]

21. Didn't CNN show a photoshopped picture of Kerry?

with rabbit ears. How does this mistake rise so far beyond that level?

Fox has their viewers believing that Irag did 911 and that WMD were found. Shouldn't they all resign?

Bill O'Reilly recently apologized:
The anchor of his own show on Fox News said he was sorry he gave the U.S. government the benefit of the doubt that former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's weapons program poised an imminent threat, the main reason cited for going to war.

"I was wrong. I am not pleased about it at all and I think all Americans should be concerned about this," O'Reilly said in an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America."

No one asked O'Reilly to resign.

[robbedvoter]

22. Didn't Ny Post report the Yankees lost to the Red Sox (the year they won)

And on page one too!

[MacDo]

23. We're way ahead... nt

[MrBenchley]

24. My letter to their editor

Should Dan Rather resign? Dan Rather didn't lead the nation into a war based on forged documents and outright lies that's killed and maimed thousands.

Let's see this appointed disgrace in the White House produce a receipt that said he peed in a cup in Alabama as he was ordered to in 1973, before we consider whether Dan Rather should resign.

[robbedvoter]

25. Kick

[newyawker99]

26. Current totals.......

32.0%
Yes (89 responses)

68.0%
No (189 responses)

278 total responses


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