Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Our Newest Op Ed
Saving CBS News
- By Nathan Tabor
To hear the mainstream media tell it, Katie Couric will be the savior of CBS News. She's perky, blonde--and getting blonder by the day. She is widely portrayed as a tough interviewer who manages to exude the sweetness of an Iowa poultry queen. The CBS Evening News--which is consistently dead-last in the ratings, welcomes her as a breath of fresh air--the type of lady who can attract the under 35 crowd--even though she herself is pushing 50.
But it will take more than a Colgate smile and a cheerleader personality to rescue network news, which seems to specialize in bashing anyone considered patriotic, pro-military, or anywhere to the right of Ted Kennedy. It's no accident that, during that dark period of American history between the two Presidents Bush, many ordinary Americans referred to CBS as the Clinton Broadcasting System................
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- By Nathan Tabor
To hear the mainstream media tell it, Katie Couric will be the savior of CBS News. She's perky, blonde--and getting blonder by the day. She is widely portrayed as a tough interviewer who manages to exude the sweetness of an Iowa poultry queen. The CBS Evening News--which is consistently dead-last in the ratings, welcomes her as a breath of fresh air--the type of lady who can attract the under 35 crowd--even though she herself is pushing 50.
But it will take more than a Colgate smile and a cheerleader personality to rescue network news, which seems to specialize in bashing anyone considered patriotic, pro-military, or anywhere to the right of Ted Kennedy. It's no accident that, during that dark period of American history between the two Presidents Bush, many ordinary Americans referred to CBS as the Clinton Broadcasting System................
Click HERE To Read On
# posted by Publius @ 4/12/2006 01:15:00 AM 
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