16 November 2004

Major network news chiefs review election, look to future

How typical. Rather than hold their little 'town meeting' in flyover country, maybe somewhere like Dallas, or St. Louis, or Denver... the old "big three" news outlets of CBS/NBC/ABC hold their little meeting in California.

Here's a news flash, fellas - quit catering to the left coast. It's making the rest of us turn the channel. And, how about just plain and simple reporting the facts, without your crappy bias?? For example, even in the story:
"On Iraq, the three said that, in retrospect, they should have more aggressively questioned the Bush administration's grounds for invading Iraq in the spring of 2003.
"Simply stated, we let down the American people on weapons of mass destruction, and I sincerely regret that," Westin said."
I'm waiting for them to try and discredit the reasons Bush gave us for going to war as they can't do it. Every single thing Bush mentioned has proven to be true. WMD's have turned up in the form of sarin and mustard gas throughout our occupation. Dual use technologies that can be used for non-WMD and WMD applications have been found, in addition to the mulitude of other reasons. The main critics have all been solidly discredited as partisian hacks. Yet the high and mighty ABC/CBS/NBC news conglomorates continue down that road.

Concerning their worry over the reporting of exit polling, how's this: let's not even post any election information till the day after. That'll give them all night to get the counts in, and then report the outcome the next day.

Oh yeah, get rid of Jennings, Brokaw, and Rather. That would be a good start.

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