CBS pulls DNC hit piece using CBS forged documents

[dude1394]

CBS is demanding that the DNC pull ads using CBS's forged documents as "news". Hilarious.. No wonder CBS is on Kerry's campaign staff, they both can't keep from flip-flopping.

cbs pulls cbs story but backs story

Update 6:05 p.m.: Late Thursday afternoon, NBC News and CBS News requested that that the Democratic National Committee pull the campaign video in question. The DNC, through a spokesman, says that the matter is under consideration.

NBC released a statement Tuesday afternoon. "The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has included an edited excerpt from a Meet the Press interview with President Bush that was broadcast on February 8, 2004 as part of their promotional campaign to be used as a web video and shown in battleground states. NBC News does not authorize its copyrighted footage to be used for partisan political purposes. NBC News did not, and does not, license use of our material for these purposes and we have asked the DNC to cease and desist immediately from using the excerpt."

CBS spokeswoman Sandy Genelius told THE WEEKLY STANDARD late Tuesday afternoon that CBS, like NBC, will demand that the Democratic National Committee stop using CBS News footage in the new ad. "We do not want them to use the video and we are taking it up with them," said Genelius.

Jano Cabrera, a spokesman for the DNC, says the matter is under consideration. "We are aware of the request[s] and we are looking at it. Our current understanding is that we have the right to use the limited excerpts in the video. But we are looking at it." See the full original story below.

[FishForLunch]

60 Minutes of late is being used for partisan purposes so why not the DNC join them in Bashing Bush. I guess this is their idea of being fair and balanced.

[u2sarajevo]

Sweating Bush II at CBS

By Staff -- Broadcasting & Cable, 11/8/2004 10:44:00 AM


Players involved in the notorious 60 Minutes II story, reported by Dan Rather, which employed dubious documents regarding President Bush’s National Guard service, may have been rooting for a John Kerry victory.

No, it wasn’t that old bugaboo liberal media bias as much as it was a bias toward saving their own skins. The report from an internal investigation into the documents mess was purposely being held until after the election.

Pre-election, the feeling in some quarters at CBS was that if Kerry triumphed, fallout from the investigation would be relatively minimal. The controversial piece’s producer, Mary Mapes, would likely be suspended or fired, but a long list of others up the chain of command—from 60 Minutes II executive producer Josh Howard, to Rather and all the way up to news division President Andrew Heyward—would escape more or less unscathed.

But now, faced with four more years of President Bush, executives at CBS parent Viacom could take a harder line on the executives involved.

[Drbio]

"may have been rooting for Kerry?"


Can't they even report with a straight statement?

[Usually Lurkin]

Isn't that akin to: If the ploy works, everything's ok. If the ploy fails, fire them all.?

[kg_veteran]

May have. Right, like I "may have" enjoyed it when Bush was re-elected last week.

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