CB$ Slims Credibility To Anorexic

Watching "Katie" chit-chat with Bush Buddy/Cheerleader Bob Schieffer last night, September 6, 2006, on the DB$ New$, unquestioningly accepting the enthusiastic stars-in-his-eyes "report", got the ol' blood boiling again, resulting in the following letter being sent to a variety of newspapers:


Dear Editor:

Edward R. Murrow. Walter Cronkite. Dan Rather. Bush Buddy Bob Schieffer. Katie Couric.

Turning the CBS Evening News to a kissing cousin of Entertainment Tonight wasn't enough--At least with Entertainment Tonight's Mary Hart, what you saw was what you got as she read the daily fluff.

Now we have a fake newsreader delivering warmed-over drivel that Karl Rove objects to only because it rallies the wingnuts into even darker corners of the human soul, while moving CB$ even closer to Faux News.

"I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation. [U.S. Journalist] Heywood Broun once said, 'No body politic is healthy until it begins to itch.' I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers."--Edward R. Murrow

Sincerely,

Terry L. Clark