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January 03, 2005

Ominous Sign

Posted by Bill

Let the fence-mending begin. According to a Broadcasting & Cable source in Washington, D.C., CBS News president Andrew Heyward, along with Washington bureau chief Janet Leissner, recently met with White House communications director Dan Bartlett, in part to repair chilly relations with the Bush administration.
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Heyward was �working overtime to convince Bartlett that neither CBS News nor Rather had a vendetta against the White House,� our source says, �and from here on out would do everything it could to be fair and balanced.� CBS declined to comment.

The fact that CBS sent Andrew Heyward to make nice wouldn't seem to foreshadow him being held accountable after the release of their internal investigation on Rathergate. As for whether or not CBS has/had an agenda against the President ... Exhibit A, Exhibit B, Exhibit C. I'd hope that Bartlett mentioned these transgressions during Heyward's protestations of innocence.

UPDATE: Scylla & Charybdis has a transcript of the meeting.

Posted by Bill at January 3, 2005 08:17 AM | TrackBack (3)

Comments

Speaking of Mr. Heyward; Where the hell is that report of "weeks not months" preparation! Mr. Heyward almost literally spits in the eye of the President by claiming neither he nor Rather, nor CBS are anti-Bush.

And all this while the promised report into "Rathergate" gathers LOTS of moss on some back burner....or perhaps it is already in the CBS black hole of cleansing, being sanitized so readers of the eventually-released portion will find there was never even a story by Rather at all. It was a foreign power utilizing CBS airwaves illegally....most likely Isreal!

If not so pathetic,it would be hilarious!

Duke

Posted by: Duke of DeLand at January 3, 2005 12:00 PM

...they'll publish it as soon as it's faxed to them from Kinkos.

Heh.

And, welcome back!

Posted by: leelu at January 3, 2005 07:04 PM

If they really want a good working relationship with the Bush Administration -- which they ineptly tried to remove from office with their phony reporting -- a bare minimum start would be to fire Dan Blather immediately.

Posted by: Van Helsing at January 3, 2005 07:38 PM

The only thing that thw white House should welcome from Andrew Heyward is copy of thie letter of resignation from CBS News. Say bye-bye Andy.

David

Posted by: David at January 3, 2005 10:06 PM