Opinion journalists like Dobbs make stuff up to make their point, and objective journalists can't say what they believe. So, which journalists and analysts call it as they see it?
So apparently, CBS only fires those who advocate for the health of veterans, if that causes the administration some discomfort because of their failure to provide promised health care to returning veterans. It is okay to advocate and cheerlead and flog the pro-Administration "surge" position, which results in MORE killed and injured soldiers, who in turn will fail to receive decent health care.
CBS didn't like Batiste's message. CBS fired Batiste because his message was not pro-Administration. CBS has not fired anyone for pro-Administration advocacy nor for advocating and cheerleading FOR contuing the war.
CBS has an anchor who provides a national platform of advocacy to rightwing zealots like Rush Limbaugh, who also has a "Free Speech" platform on CBS radio three hours per day, but they refuse to allow a rebuttal.
CBS sponsors and promotes rightwing hate radio which broadcasts racist hate propaganda and advocacy nationally. Imus, Savage, Bennett, Harley Karnes, Opie and Anthony.
Well, this took CBS News credibility down yet another notch. I doubt you will recover your lost credibility for many years, if ever.
what's the matter with you liberal, I think CBS for once did the right thing, its not enough that all of CBS reports against the war for you people commenting here, always reporting on the liberal side, how can someone who comes out in a commercial ad totally against BUSH and the war be a unbiased commentator, all you people I know you hate BUSH and this war, but they did the right thing, and by all these comments here, I made my case on who watches cbs and probably cnn, abc, msnbc and nbc.
How about Lou Dobbs? He's not just an advocate, he's a dishonest advocate, as your own Lesley Stahl proved. When Stahl confronted Dobbs with the fact that his "7000 cases of leprosy in the last three years" was really 7000 cases over thirty years, he just insisted that if he had said it, it must be true. But the claim was borrowed from an article in a junk-science journal, and official statistics show that Dobbs was wrong. To err is human; to insist on error is unprofessional.
Hello? Is Rupert Murdoch there? I guess he must be. What in the world is going on at CBS? Firing a general for supporting an organization that helpd war veterans get elected. Shame on you! I guess it is time to wipe CBS out of my channel memory.
So incredibly sad, so entirely predictable! CBS once again shows us the face of utter hypocrisy. Retired General John Batiste takes a couragous stand, gets fired for it, CBS claims it's written policy made the firing necessary, the blogs find out that Michael O'Hanlon has written for the Washington Post in favor of the "surge" and that Nicole Wallace has editorialized in favor of John McCain. Both of them remain as CBS on-air analysts. Neither one ever complained that CBS had ever given the slightest trouble. Why is it only advocates who agree with the American public and are against the President that find themselves punished by advocacy policies?
Hello people at CBS, Batiste is an honest man who added a needed viewpoint on your telecast. When all of your reports advance the same position that is propaganda. You need Batiste and by firing him with your transparent lies you have once again chosen to be irrelevant. Remember Baghdad Bob? Nobody believes you either.
I guess CBS has removed all traces of the news division that created the standard in television news under the aegis of Fred Friendly, Ed Murrow, *** Salant and Walter Cronkite. It's reasonably clear that "Harvest of Shame" would never have been aired under the current regime at CBS, much less Ed Murrow's exposi of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
You have subjected your viewers to years of your on-air "consultants" cheerleading a war that has created the worst foreign policy catastrophe in our history, including Michael O'Hanlon and Fouad Ajami, who have been taking "advocacy" positions in favor of the Bush administration's "surge". Your summary termination of General Batiste is a craven act of obsequious submission to power, completely at odds with the role of a free press in our republic. Government-owned television networks such as the BBC have more respect for their public trust.
How Orwellian to see that your notion of "an analytical approach to the issues we want to discuss" only precludes your analysts from taking a public position opposed to that of the administration in power.
And yet you wonder why you're losing your audience (and what's left of your credibility).
I guess as long as Batiste spoke only of a 'positive war,' he would have a job. But, when he speaks as a soldier on behalf of soldiers, as a private citizen, he needs to go? Obviously, your network feels a conflict of interest on Batiste's part: He's just not being a Team Bush player! The veil over this story is so thin as to approach ridiculousness and CBS needs to get its act together, for you have virtually no credibility left. Some may have been asleep at the wheel over the last 6 years, but some, believe it or not, are awakening and smelling the coffee and, guess what, it's burnt.
we must have the free Press to survive as a democracy this firing is wrong for many many reasons that have been ... pointed out pass posts this controversy is growing and I just want to say the corporate media is really showing its allegiance to the mighty dollar. this happened with Dan Rather and the swift boaters.
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So apparently, CBS only fires those who advocate for the health of veterans, if that causes the administration some discomfort because of their failure to provide promised health care to returning veterans. It is okay to advocate and cheerlead and flog the pro-Administration "surge" position, which results in MORE killed and injured soldiers, who in turn will fail to receive decent health care.
CBS didn't like Batiste's message. CBS fired Batiste because his message was not pro-Administration. CBS has not fired anyone for pro-Administration advocacy nor for advocating and cheerleading FOR contuing the war.
CBS has an anchor who provides a national platform of advocacy to rightwing zealots like Rush Limbaugh, who also has a "Free Speech" platform on CBS radio three hours per day, but they refuse to allow a rebuttal.
CBS sponsors and promotes rightwing hate radio which broadcasts racist hate propaganda and advocacy nationally. Imus, Savage, Bennett, Harley Karnes, Opie and Anthony.
Well, this took CBS News credibility down yet another notch. I doubt you will recover your lost credibility for many years, if ever.
What in the world is going on at CBS? Firing a general for supporting an organization that helpd war veterans get elected. Shame on you!
I guess it is time to wipe CBS out of my channel memory.
Bye-bye CBS.
Why is it only advocates who agree with the American public and are against the President that find themselves punished by advocacy policies?
You have subjected your viewers to years of your on-air "consultants" cheerleading a war that has created the worst foreign policy catastrophe in our history, including Michael O'Hanlon and Fouad Ajami, who have been taking "advocacy" positions in favor of the Bush administration's "surge". Your summary termination of General Batiste is a craven act of obsequious submission to power, completely at odds with the role of a free press in our republic. Government-owned television networks such as the BBC have more respect for their public trust.
How Orwellian to see that your notion of "an analytical approach to the issues we want to discuss" only precludes your analysts from taking a public position opposed to that of the administration in power.
And yet you wonder why you're losing your audience (and what's left of your credibility).