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calimary's JournalNO! Seriously? It just underscores the attempted intimidation tactic.
Well there they are. Full frontal. Only difference with this photo is - it makes those pictured a little easier to identify.
No kidding. Welcome to DU, Son of Atomic!
SO very glad to have you with us. I love Atomic Kitten! I'm so sorry that Newtown has affected her this deeply. It's been an emotional blow to a lot of us! The thing I've really come to appreciate about this place, personally, beyond just how one becomes smarter, better educated, more deeply aware, more sophisticated, more informed by hanging out here, is the fellowship. One DUer has said it best (dang, I wish I remember whose post it was!) that "someone's always here." Might have been Skittles. Someone IS always here. People here are so good at reaching out, commiserating, sympathizing, consoling, sitting vigil, and other extensions of support and comfort. People here have such big hearts and broad shoulders.
Much love to you and your mom (and hugs to you, too libodem)! I'll check out that link.
Yeah, I noticed that, too, grasswire.
Excuse me? So "60 Minutes" is a modified peep show now, too? MAN how far they fall. Remember when CBS used to be called "The Tiffany Network"? The news division was above reproach, its integrity without question. As a matter of fact, the early CBS News titans wrote the book, as it were, on broadcast journalism. "Gotcha" journalism originated, officially, with Mike Wallace and what was then called "ambush journalism." Back when grizzled male reporters sat in a harshly-lit studio, often with a live cigarette in their fingers. "60 Minutes" was the gold standard. The brass ring. If you were hired as a "60 Minutes" correspondent, you were a giant in your own right, a heavyweight, an A-lister, a star. You had credibility oozing out of your pores. Your integrity was beyond question but then again, you were held to the highest of high standards. The revered and feared executive producer Don Hewitt was a task master and a stern and driven leader, and he managed some mighty egos. But then again, you were on Mount Olympus. I was a news reporter for a number of years and at one point or other we all fantasized about being a "60 Minutes" correspondent, the same way most of the women I met or worked with when I was still working - at one point or other aspired to be the next Barbara Walters. A position like that was where you wanted to be. Among the greats. It meant you just might be one of them. And the pay and perks were fabulous too!
But sheesh, "60 Minutes" was an amazingly ground-breaking show, with heavyweights like Morley Safer who'd earned distinction and awards galore covering the Vietnam War. His and other coverage played a role in starting to turn the American public against the war - and I think it was Nixon who lamented that when he lost Walter Cronkite he'd lost the war. Dan Rather - who was not just there in Dallas on that day and that moment and phoned it into the newsroom first, covered that war and more, jousted with several presidents live on TV and was in Afghanistan before anybody. Harry Reasoner, elder statesman-type correspondent who jumped ship to become evening news anchor on ABC. (It used to make me chuckle that almost everybody on "60 Minutes" had to have the letters "er" at the end of their last names.) The aforementioned Mike Wallace. That his son went to Pox Noise - preplexing to say the least. It was like a news version of Murderers Row. "60 Minutes" had the original "Crossfire"-type program with Shana Alexander and James J. Kilpatrick. They shared a segment called "Point/Counterpoint," she the liberal, he the conservative, that was famously spoofed by Jane Curtin and Dan Aykroyd on "Saturday Night Live" (the bit wherein Aykroyd would open with "Jane, you ignorant slut,..."
Several more distinguished correspondents would follow, including Ed Bradley and Andy Rooney. After that, though, it felt to me as though it started to run out of steam. But for YEARS, "60 Minutes" wasn't just the number-one news show in the Nielsens, it was the number-one prime time show PERIOD. It was Olympus. Now, it's WAAAAAAYYY down in the gully below.
I never thought I'd see the day when people's opinions of "60 Minutes" turned into rolled eyeballs and comments of "I don't trust them anymore." Now, on every one of these articles, I see it again and again. Amazing. Cronkite, Reasoner, Wallace, and Edward R. Murrow whom they all idolized, would all be spinning in their graves. The House Murrow Built has now been completely torn down. Most lately by a pretty little blonde with a wrecking ball. And I'm not talking Miley Cyrus, either.
McClatchy, 'eh? I seem to recall that, during the run-up to the Iraq War and the war as it went on,
it was the McClatchy people who got the story correctly. It was like this one voice yelling out WAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYY over on the sidelines, but they called it on the WMD and everything.
I'm enthralled by the comments! Intriguing that the first one up top (besides others, throughout) focuses on the inevitable take-away for lara logan's next presumptive career move. Quoting: "Coming soon to the Faux News lineup, Lara Logan." And "She'll be on the FOX & FRIENDS couch in no time showing off her legs and telling us the sun revolves around the Earth, adding that the Earth is flat, of course, and only 6000 years old."
OUCH!!! 
McClatchy, 'eh? I seem to recall that it was the McClatchy papers that reported the only truth
on the run-up to the war in Iraq. They were ignored, snubbed, and otherwise left out. And they were the only ones to tell the truth. I'm loving the comments!
Did this one, too.
I cannot believe you are keeping this hack and her producer on staff, after they willfully and recklessly trashed the "60 Minutes" brand - that was absolutely sterling, beyond reproach, and trustworthy as could be - until she came along. If THIS is your new standard, that you'll turn your back on simple journalistic ethics, I'd have to ask when you plan to apologize to Dan Rather and Mary Mapes, and reinstate them to their jobs at CBS? FIRE LARA LOGAN!!! AND her producer, AND the Pox Noise operative now masquerading as a CBS News executive overseer.
We need to push HARD on the pressure buttons.
What I wrote:
You are STILL giving aid and comfort to Lara Logan? There is no price or penalty for the deliberate hit piece she did, pawning off LIES that might cast the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton in a bad light? Did you have any clue about her hawkish political agenda when you hired her? Did anyone bother to check her "facts" before you fell in love with her pretty face? And if she's allowed to stay, when will Dan Rather and Mary Mapes be reinstated? Surely there's some penalty to be exacted from Lara Logan's complete evisceration of the formerly impeccable "60 Minutes" brand? It was once the gold standard. Now it's trash. CBS was once the home of "the most trusted man in America" - Walter Cronkite, who is probably spinning in his grave at this moment.
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