Well, Looky Here...

By: Greg Kandra
Topics: CBS Stuff

All of us at "C&C" are delighted, and humbled, to learn that a few others in the blogosphere have noticed us, and taken the trouble to write about what we're up to.

We're always looking for interesting feedback and lively criticism.

You can also take a peek here and here for more on what people are saying.

A few people have mentioned that someone from our staff has been conspicuously absent. We're working on some cloning experiments right now that we hope will solve that problem. Stay tuned.

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by waynecp September 8, 2006 11:19 PM EDT: No one should ever take Rush seriously. He is nothing more than a hot air balloon. He is as ignorant as the president he so blindly follows.; Reply to this comment


by lkeithjordan September 8, 2006 5:09 PM EDT: Katie, I'm on the way home for much of your broadcast, but I have always been a fan and I think the changes at CBS are critical to reclaiming its former glory in the newsroom. I wish you the best of luck in your new adventure.

That being said, I hope you will reserve most of the broadcast for truly newsworthy stories. I also hope you will include %u201Csmaller voices" in the Free Speech segment. The remaining message addresses this latter issue.

Too often, the voices of average citizens are only heard during election time in the form of a few televised "town meetings." As for opinion polls, the questions being asked and the demographic population being queried can bias the results. For most of us, that leaves the voting booth as the path of last resort to being heard by those we place in power.

Liberal and conservative extremist "talking heads," movie stars, and politicians already have their own bully pulpits. It's important to protect their freedom to speak (even when you hate what you hear), but it's also important to give a greater voice to the folks across this nation who spend most of their time more concerned with the microcosm of daily life than the macrocosm of national or global existence.

Sure, you have to be careful to pick thoughtful commentary made in good taste -- you have a responsibility to your viewers -- but I suspect most of what you get from the "little guys" will be far superior to some of the clabber and foam assaulting the air waves each day.; Reply to this comment


by September 8, 2006 12:01 PM EDT: If you get a chance to interview him again.
1. The CIA trained bin Laden. The code word they used back in the late 90's was "blowback", it is when a trained asset goes bad.(came from a story by Michael Moran @ NBC can't remember exact date off the top of my head.) Who else are we currently training? (If we get referred to the CIA, then ask what refinements to the program have been requested by the administration in the recruitment and negotiations with unsavory individuals?)
2. Why do you think the Senate 5 years after 9/11, decided to get into the hunt for Bin Laden? Mr. President do you feel that the Senate's move to create a taskforce is an indictment on how your administration has handled the war on terror?
3. Where do you see the most need for improvement in how your administration administers the war on terror? (If he doesn't understand that, follow up by saying something to the extent of "When you give an order take me through exactly what your staff does to make sure it happens.")
4. Your father was DCI, vPOTUS, and POTUS. Does he still get briefed officially on matters of intelligence? If so has he played a major role in how you have crafted your intelligence policy. (Press him on his father's involvement.)
Then follow with "We have heard a great deal about the CIA's secret prisons, is this a new policy? Did you discuss it with your father? If so what did he think?
(most likely he will refer you to the CIA, but you might get lucky, never know if you don't ask.); Reply to this comment


by jcar583733 September 8, 2006 11:41 AM EDT: Please, can't we eliminate the Free Speech segment? It's just a bit too much to take when I want to hear news, and I have to be subjected to opinions of persons, known and unknown, especially like Rush Limbaugh. I would like to see this newscast be at the top of the ratings, but you're going to have to make some changes.; Reply to this comment


by pygar377 September 8, 2006 3:43 AM EDT: re: CBSnews.freeSpeach.com for Thu 7-Sep-06...

"They want to kill us!" No Rush, just some of us.

So how about you doing something for the war effort. We hear that Armed Services recruiters have relaxed enlistment requirements. How about you, and your pals... "Pick up a weapon, and stand a post!"

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Don't worry sweetie, yours will be just another of "a few incidents".

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Rush is RIGHT about one thing... "evil will always win".; Reply to this comment


by pygar377 September 8, 2006 3:07 AM EDT: Interesting filter, i.e. no D-s, no B-s, but plenty of H-ell.

Weird!

And gotta watch that MovableType punctuation.; Reply to this comment


by pygar377 September 8, 2006 3:00 AM EDT: Whoa! Guess I should have watched the Rush bit before writing. Nah! Always know what he (and Lady Ann et al) are gonna say before they even open their big fat stupid idiot mouths.

Hey CBS! Despite the favourable/encouraging intended remarks above, there is no way in hell that you%u2019ll ever beat FOX at their own game. You can only hope that America will find its brain (and heart & soul), before all is lost forever.

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BTW: Re: the previous post...
- the first *** was for D as in Richard (Nixon); wishing you were here
- the 2nd *** was for bastions or some such
- and here, the anticipated *** is for Happily lapping flames; Reply to this comment


by pygar377 September 8, 2006 2:52 AM EDT: Day 3%u2026 (Part 2)

And, in keeping with the above lauded "rapid fire" presentation, bag all that "packaging" around spots like "Snapshots" et al. Just insure news worthiness, report it, then move on. There's NO value-add to your fluffy picture framing.

Missed Rush on tonight's freeSpeech, but if you intend to keep this up, how 'bout hearing from the (***'s voiceless) citizenry, instead of these yakkers who already have their BULL-horns.

Finally, don't understand why all three of you always have to close with that "un-news" junk - after opening with "world on fire" headlines. What's your point - "our American GI's still gettin' killed, the world still hates us, and our government is still a bunch of lying corrupt inept ***" - but life's really just swell. CUT IT OUT! Twenty-plus minutes "hard" NEWS, then get off the air.

Nothin%u2019 but love for ya%u2026; Reply to this comment


by pygar377 September 8, 2006 2:49 AM EDT: As you appear to have blogets all over these Web pages, I%u2019ll just deposit this here.

Day 3 - much, MUCH better!

First ~10 minutes rapid-fire coverage, including the no-intro get right into it and no needless gaps between news pieces. Even the NYSE/DOW & NASDAQ close numbers displayed across the desk at the break, rather than taking time to speak them. BRAVO!

Now if Katie can manage her (better suited for morning show) happy grin, CBS just may have the broadcast network nightly-news presentation format of the 21st century, and a WINNER!

Still not sanguine about the "morning show" style chitchats. Recognize Katie's strength, the morning-show audience may be able to stomach, but this is Ames mister. Remedy: Stay at the desk and just show the (expert) interviewee over some vid feed, as you do with the CBS field folks.

<End - Part 1 of 2>; Reply to this comment


by setanta66 September 8, 2006 2:27 AM EDT: Oh how I was sickened to see Rush Limbaugh on CBS. He is repulsive and a Bush apologist. Don't we get enough of this *** from Fox News?

This is still America to some extent and he's entitled to his opinion. Having said that, I don't tune into CBS to see him spew his fringe, far right wing garbage.

Katie, I have enjoyed watching you for years, but I will no longer tune in to CBS. In an age where reality based news is nearly impossible to find, you have just jumped the shark in my opinion. If I wanted to see and/or listen to RNC propaganda I'll tune into Fox.

Farewell.....; Reply to this comment

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