CBS has drastically lowered the bar

[CatWoman]

[aquart]

1. Give them the ratings they deserve.

No excuse for pandering to the panderers.

[CatWoman]

2. I refuse to watch them any more

I've seen Couric's idea of "non biased news"

[aquart]

28. Sat Nite Live just did something on it.

They don't seem to consider her a journalist.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. They're late into the game of the "Conservative anchor" race...

...and will realize soon enough that the public is SICK of corporate/conservative news sycophants. All that money they're paying Katie is money down the shitter...:hurts:

[zippy890]

4. I'm bummed, I like Bob Sheiffer

a very professional reporter, and I like the way he asked questions of the reporters
giving the stories. No huge ego, he seemed to care about the right things.

and a real nice smile.
I'll miss him
:(

[cornermouse]

13. I like Scheiffer or however he spells his name too.

I'm not real thrilled about this move. Actually, I don't like it.

[chookie]

29. I like Schieffer too

He's been the best since the late PJ. I was hoping CBS would do something "politically incorrect" and hire someone who is 67 to present the news for the next few years.

I am REALLY going to miss Schieffer. I can't stand Williams, am not impressed with Vargas, and dread Couric.

[AX10]

5. CBS has decended into the slums of Cable "News".

Sad. Bob Scheiffer is qualified for the job. CBS should have just kept him.

[bigwillq]

6. I won't watch with Katie on CBS

she makes me :puke:

I like World News Tonight on ABC of the three networks the best.

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. ABC ate Clinton alive

I gave them up after their continual nasty attacks during the impeachment hearings.

[bigwillq]

14. I still prefer them over

NBC or CBS.

I like CBS but not anymore since Couric is coming over.

I like ABC's personalities the best.

[Gabi Hayes]

20. amen....FUCK Jennings and the rest of the M$M handmaidens...check this

I love this.....


JENNINGS : Fifty-eight historians, as I think you may know, did this for C-SPAN. And they were all across the political spectrum. And they came out, in general terms, that you were 21st. And on public persuasion and economic management, they gave you a fifth. Pretty good.

CLINTON: Pretty good.

JENNINGS : They gave you a 41st on moral authority.

CLINTON: They're wrong about that.

JENNINGS: : After Nixon.

CLINTON: They're wrong about that. You know why they're wrong about that? They're wrong about it.

PETER JENNINGS: : Why, sir?

CLINTON: Because we had $100 million spent against us and all these inspections. One person in my administration was convicted of doing something that violated his job responsibilities while we were in the White House. Twenty-nine in the Reagan/Bush years. I'll bet those historians didn't even know that. They have no idea what I was subject to and what a lot of people supported. No other President ever had to endure someone like Ken Starr indicting innocent people because they wouldn't lie, in a systematic way.

No one ever had to try to save people from ethnic cleansing in the Balkans and the people in Haiti from a military dictator who was murdering them. And all of the other problems I dealt with, while everyday, an entire apparatus was devoted to destroying him. And still, not any example of where I ever disgraced this country, publicly. I made a terrible public/personal mistake. But I paid for it. Many times over.

And in spite of it all, you don't have any example where I ever lied to the American people about my job, where I ever let the American people down. And I had more support from the world, and world leaders and people around the world, when I quit than when I started. And I will go to my grave being at peace about it. And I don't really care what they think.

JENNINGS Oh, yes, you do, sir. Oh -- excuse me, Mr. President, I can feel it across the room. You feel it very deeply.

CLINTON: No, I care. You don't want to go here, Peter. You don't want to go here. Not after what you people did and the way you, your network, what you did with Kenneth Starr. The way your people repeated every, little sleazy thing he leaked. No one has any idea what that's like. That's where I failed. You wanna know where I failed? I really let it -- it hurt me. I thought I lived in a country where people believed in the Constitution, the rule of law, freedom of speech.

You never had to live in a time when people you knew and cared about were being indicted, carted off to jail, bankrupted, ruined, because they were Democrats and because they would not lie. So, I think we showed a lot of moral fiber to stand up to that, to stand up to these constant investigations, to this constant bodyguard of lies, this avalanche that was thrown at all of us. And, yes, I failed once. And I sure paid for it. And I'm sorry. I'm sorry for the American people. And I'm sorry for the embarrassment they performed. But they ought to think about the rest of the world reacted to it.

When I -- when I got a standing ovation at the United Nations, from the whole world, the American networks were showing my grand jury testimony. Those were decisions you made, not me. I personally believe that the standing ovation I got from the whole world at the United Nations, which was unprecedented for an American president, showed not only support for me, but opposition to the madness that had taken a hold of American politics.

[FrannyD]

25. Me neither

And she is gonna ruin 60 minutes for me too, a show i've watched regularly for 20 f'n years!
Sickening!!!

[TahitiNut]

7. "lowered the bar"? Are they remodeling a bicycle?

:evilgrin:


If anyone needs a lower bicycle bar, it's bipeds with testicles. (Ouch!)

[sallyseven]

8. I am older than dirt. I remember

Katie when she was a reporter and she was creditable. I don't think that there will be the bruha ha that happened after Jane Pauley left NBC. I think that Meridith Viera will be well received for those of us who don't want to face reality in the am. She is a good person and was a very popular reporter in Providence, RI.

[Gabi Hayes]

9. can't believe anybody ever watches that garbage

news readers are not journalists

either are most 'journalists'

[Gabi Hayes]

11. and schieffer is nothing but an asskissing Bush sycophant

ask his brother, the ambassador to what, Australia

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. Have you read Schieffer's biography?

He is NOT a fan of bush - not in the least.

[Gabi Hayes]

19. who cares about that? he is either a sycophant, or he's eskeered

of losing his PERSONAL contacts....see other post response to this....hence his fat, cushy job.

NOBODY interviews that guy in the US without Bush's knowing that there will be NO tough questions, and, especially NO followups that demand he actually answer a question, instead of filibustering endlessly and inanely

but then, maybe it's just me

[AX10]

16. Scheiffer's reporting would show the contrary to what you claim.

Most of it, anyways.

[Gabi Hayes]

18. god forbid my own lying eyes and ears

WHEN IT COUNTED:

he was clearly biased toward the chimp during the debates, and his recent interview of * at the WH was an embarrassing smoochfest, the likes of which reminded me of his appearances with Britt Hume

but be my guest. enjoy the M$M and its lapdog treatment of the junta all you want. and look hard for Schieffer's reportage on the latest developments in the Plame/NIE affair. want to bet anything he reports on it will NOT mention the fact that Plame's name is revealed in the NIE? nobody in the M$M has touched upon that, and WILL not, unless forced to.

[Gabi Hayes]

21. what a joke. his 'reporting' was spoonfed wingnut blastfax pap

http://mediamatters.org/items/200410120011

Schieffer used Republican talking points in place of facts. As MMFA noted the following day, on the July 18 edition of CBS's Face the Nation, Schieffer echoed Republican Party talking points in questioning Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe, falsely asserting that Senator John Kerry "really has laid out no agenda" on Iraq.


Schieffer cited only one poll and extrapolated Kerry criticism. As MMFA also documented, given five recently released national polls that painted two very different pictures of the presidential race -- three showed an extremely close race, while two showed a sizeable Bush lead -- Schieffer cited only a poll favorable to Bush (the CBS News/New York Times poll) and concluded on the September 19 edition of Face the Nation: "George Bush has now opened a nine-point lead over John Kerry. You don't have to be an expert to figure that out. Voters may be less than enamored with President Bush but they are even more uneasy about John Kerry, whose plans for the country remain a mystery to them, according to this poll."

want more?

there's plenty

[AX10]

22. Let's put it this way, Bob is better than Katie.

Make of it what you will.

[Gabi Hayes]

23. and puke is better than s***. make of it what you will

why pay attention to any of that stuff at all?

that's my point

it's not news. it's propaganda

[HopeFor2006]

15. "Navy Seals Rock!"

:puke:

[Marlie]

17. CBS

Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Dan Rathers and now Katie. Lowering the bar
is putting it mildly.

[PsN2Wind]

24. "Lowered the bar" Sure!!

But they've raised the hemline. Damn Schaeffer never showed any leg.

[Ksec]

26. Couric never did do anything for me...

Ive never saw the appeal.

Her interveiws are mostly fluff . She isnt particularly gifted as a host imo and her new boyfreind seems to have made her a right winger.

[Buns_of_Fire]

27. I maintain my "wait and see" attitude...

Heck, I noticed that even Bob Schieffer has both fans and detractors on this very same thread. But if enough people decide to trash KC even before her first nightly news broadcast, I might just decide to support her fully just to tick everyone off. That'll learn ya.

Hey, it's what I do... :shrug: