Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Selectric II who wrote (17788)	9/28/2004 6:46:18 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

nypost.com DAN'S RATINGS IN A FREE FALL By MICHAEL STARR and VINCENT MORRIS September 28, 2004 -- Dan Rather's ratings in New York continue to tank in the wake of the fake-documents scandal. The "CBS Evening News" averaged 160,000 viewers last week on WCBS/Channel 2 — down from 231,000 viewers the week before. Rather apologized for the National Guard documents debacle on the Sept. 20 newscast, and his numbers actually rose the next two days, reaching a high of 241,000 viewers Wednesday. In the week before Rather's on-air mea culpa, viewership was off a staggering 49 percent. The numbers spiraled downward since Wednesday, with Thursday's "Evening News" pulling only 140,000 viewers on Channel 2, and a measly 108,000 viewers Friday, according to Nielsen numbers. Meanwhile, a fourth of American adults polled for USA Today and CNN by Gallup say Rather should be fired over the story charging President Bush got special treatment during his National Guard service — but 64 percent said the anchor should not be canned. Also, 38 percent said the CBS report was a hit job aimed at making Bush look bad, while 56 percent said it was an "honest mistake." The poll of 546 adults conducted Friday through Sunday is the first national effort to gauge damage to CBS over the story. The poll also asked how many Americans had been following the controversy, with 22 percent saying they were very closely tracking it. Another 43 percent said they were following it "somewhat," while 24 percent said "not at all." Meanwhile, former New Jersey Republican Senate candidate Doug Forrester is taking out a series of radio and TV ads hitting Rather. A Forrester aide said the ads begin airing today on CBS stations here, in Philadelphia and in New Jersey, as well as on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. "Dan Rather desperately wanted to believe forged documents . . . It wasn't just sloppy journalism. It was political bias," says the ad. "It's time for Dan Rather to go."

To: Selectric II who wrote (17788)	9/28/2004 7:56:15 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 90947

Who said the war was over? wstera did...he thinks we are in the aftermath of the war...only trouble is that we have lost more soldiers in the aftermath than the "war itself". It doesn't take a genius to see that the war is far from over in Iraq. I'm much better off with us fighting the radicals there than in Columbus, Saint Louis, San Francisco, Baltimore, and Miami. Aren't you? Since we spend in one day in Iraq what we spend in an entire year for homeland defense we'd better hope the war stays over there. But imagine if we would have actually gone after Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and did the job there? Then there would not be any of them left to come to Iraq and to other ports of call to do their dirty deeds. Orca