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To: LindyBill who started this subject9/23/2004 5:04:33 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 793758
 
Looks like you people are getting though to the affiliates. Kurtz.

.....hurting CBS and anchor Dan Rather at the local level. Bob Lee, general manager of WBDJ-TV in Roanoke and president of the CBS Affiliates Association, said he has heard from many stations and "we're all being battered."

"There is a body of people who just intensely dislike Dan Rather and see an opportunity to demand his immediate resignation, or that he be shot," Lee said. A smaller group, he said, view the reaction as "the Republican right wing just trying to drum Dan out of the business. Viewers have been quite vocal that while they admire, respect and trust our local news organization, we are so tarnished by this lapse of judgment at the network that they may take their viewing elsewhere."

WNIS-AM in Norfolk said yesterday that it is dropping its agreement to carry CBS News reports after 12 years and switching to ABC because of the Guard story. "Our listeners have clamored for a change," said spokesman Dave Morgan, adding that CBS's credibility has been "seriously damaged by the ongoing scandal."

CBS spokesman Dana McClintock expressed "regret" that WNIS "made this decision based on this one issue alone." He said CBS affiliates and viewers "deserve a better explanation of how this came to pass" and expects the new panel to provide one.

washingtonpost.com
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