60 Minutes Craven Attempt To Woo Those Who Think CBS Too Liberal

A mate of mine just sent me this... I know you will all be outraged so I thought I would share...

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Why 60 Minutes Nixed it's Story Sunday On The Iraq War


I just spoke to a colleague of mine who is a senior producer at 60
Minutes
and he told me that the story that was scheduled to run Sunday on the
program on how forged documents that showed how Iraq had tried to
acquire
uranium from Niger more than a year ago, was cancelled only a few days
after
Dan Rather's mea culpa on Bush's National Guard documents.

But this is the real shocker (at least to me): the segment was replaced,
my
colleague says, with a very soft interview between Mike Wallace and Fox
News' Bill O'Reilley in an effort to win over viewers who thought CBS
was
too liberal. The decision to air the O'Reilley interview, which my
colleague
says was originally scheduled for a later date, was made by executives
at
CBS and 60 minutes the day of Rather's mea culpa. My colleague said the
interview with O'Reilley was edited in such a way days before it aired
that
showed O'Reilley as this great guy and maverick reporter, all an attempt
by
the network to quiet those on the right who claim the network is too
liberal.

We need our own network!

Or, more likely, just senile?

...from one year ago, you mean the so called yellow-cake documents from the British that were forgeries?

CBS was snookered by Neo Fascist operatives. The sabatoge worked. CBS has been nuetered.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/09/29/cbs_wmd/index.html

Excerpt:

The importance that CBS placed on the report was evident by its unusual length: It was slated to run a full half hour, double the usual 15 minutes of a single segment. Although months of reporting went into the production, CBS abruptly decided that it would be "inappropriate to air the report so close to the presidential election," in the words of a statement that network spokeswoman Kelli Edwards gave the New York Times.

The real reason, of course, was that because of CBS's sloppy reporting on the Bush National Guard story, the network's news executives believed they could no longer report credibly on the heart of the Iraq nuclear issue, involving another set of completely forged documents: those purporting to show that Iraq had purchased yellowcake uranium from the African country Niger.

Salon was given the videotape by CBS News on the condition that we report on it only shortly before it was to air. But after the network effectively spiked its own story (which was reported by Newsweek online and by the New York Times), we sent an e-mail late last week to CBS stating that we believed that the embargo no longer applied. We received no reply and therefore feel free to report.

Sad!

They want to get viewers back so they can sell advertising.