"See BS" yo

Lol, what a great site! I'll definately be coming back for more! As far as your recent entry concerning Dan Rather, lol, I noticed that too on election night and I thought they were quite hilarious. I was surprised no one else laughed on tv at what he was saying. Him being a rapper? Hhahahah! Nice touch!!

Enjoy him now. Before he is gently but firmly pushed from his West 57th St. chair into the Manhattan traffic. Ratings didn't even improve during the controversy over the story about George W. Bush's National Guard records in September- the one that could lead to his premature retirement. Not even an increase to attribute to viewers arriving to see what the fuss is all about. They turned him off years ago. In the nation's top 25 markets, CBS was number one Tuesday night only in New Orleans and Pittsburgh, where local powerhouses WWL and KDKA have long ruled the ratings roost. Other CBS affiliate general managers long for the day when that half-hour will be opened for more local news, or Entertainment Tonight, or something else that will draw more viewers than Dan and his cute aphorisms.

My favorite Ratherism was:
"If Kerry wins Ohio, he could win the election. And if a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun," or something like that.

I really wonder what medication the man was on ...

I like MC Blather myself :D

Warren: I believe it was, "If Kerry wins Ohio, he could win the election...We used to say if a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun."

April: hey welcome.
Gerard: I must say, rather is just getting old. I realized it back during the early Democratic candidate debates. He's beginning to sag. He's losing his mojo (although i must say, he was whippin' out those metaphors like a pro). If a woman looked like Rather, she would've been canned long ago.

I kinda like MC Blather.

"In southern states they beat him like a rented mule."
I think, "they beat him like a run away slave" would have been more appropriate but only black folk can say something like that without getting into trouble no matter how true it is.

It is crumbling.

I watched the dawn of the modern era. We got our first TV in 1948. Before that the world was what the local paper said it was. There was radio but there was only a couple of hours a week devoted to news.

TV changed our political world. The election of 1960 was a radical departure. It ushered in the age of retail politics. The party leaders no longer selected the candidates or determined the platform. Relatively small amounts of money could go over their heads on TV.

This is the proximate cause of the Democrat party's current predicament. Special interests, ideological as opposed to economic, became the tail that wags the dog. This happened because it is relatively easy to raise a million dollars for a contribution. And since there was no need to be rational, no market test, these interests play extreme hardball. It seems that every time a Democrat politician says anything they must recite a catechism of the intersts - choice, affirmative action, environment, ... If they don't they don't get to run.

The world has changed. The internet is free! Ambra can reach as many people as the NY Times or CBS News. Don't laugh. I think some day she might.

The internet is a much more efficient medium. By orders of magnitude. TV is inherently slow. You can read about 4 times as fast a you can listen. You have to go by their schedule and their agenda.

The internet cross references. It is dynamic and reactionary. I believe that the change is happening much, much faster than anybody realizes. MSM is in perilous straits.

Regards,
Roy

"MSM is in perilous straits."

Ofh definitely. The alphabet channels lost significant ratings this year over 2000 in the election coverage. You look at tyhe fact that Fox won the ratings flatout during the RNC convention, add in that FOX increased their ratings over the 2000 election night by 216%. They were at 8.5, still way beyhind NBC at 15.0, but that is much better and within striking distance.

With rather and Brokaw leaving, you might see a shift to the right at the anchor desk, which may at least help a bit, but I doubt they can contain themselves. On the other hand I see FOX moving a bit more to the center, to increase their share.

I am not a jack booted storm trooper

SGT. MAJ. Seamus D.D. MacNemi RMC Retired

SIG. DIGGER
Lincoln said it: "You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time. But you can't fool all of the people all of the time. It's about time for the Democrats to learn that. They better get a new Patron Saint. St. Michael the Mooreon can't cut it any more.