Dick Thornburg and former head of AP Newswire picked to investigate CBS.

[KoKo]

I didn't catch the former AP Head's name, but Repug Thornburg is interesting enough.

Also MSNBC showed photo of Mary Mapes as being under investigation (they were pumping it up with spin) Mary Mapes broke the Abu Ghraib story. I knew they would go after her.

Then they announced a huge fine by the FCC for CBS over Janet's Boob...saying CBS has another "black eye."

Let's hope this turns out differently than it's looking and Roger Stone turns out to be the source and it comes out it was Repug dirty tricks.
If not, and Mapes has to take the fall, we will lose a Producer who worked very hard to get stories out that needed to be told.

On Edit: Here's snip from both stories:

Former U.S. attorney and former news executive to investigate
The Associated Press
Updated: 12:14 p.m. ET Sept. 22, 2004

NEW YORK - CBS News appointed former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and former Associated Press chief executive Louis Boccardi to investigate what went wrong with its story on President Bush’s service in the National Guard.
Thornburgh is a former two-term governor of Pennsylvania and served as attorney general in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

Boccardi retired last year as president and chief executive officer for The Associated Press. He served on the panel that probed operations at The New York Times following the Jayson Blair scandal.

CBS News admitted on Monday that it could not authenticate documents it had used in a “60 Minutes” story that questioned Bush’s service in the Guard during the Vietnam War era. Many critics consider the documents to be fake.

The network and its chief anchor, Dan Rather, have apologized for airing the story.

“I want to say, personally and directly, I’m sorry,” a subdued Rather said Monday on the “CBS Evening News.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6063289/

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FCC fines CBS $550,000 for Super Bowl show
Penalty is largest fine levied against a TV broadcaster
Updated: 1:08 p.m. ET Sept. 22, 2004

WASHINGTON - Federal regulators on Wednesday fined CBS a record $550,000 for Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction,” which exposed the singer’s breast during this year’s Super Bowl halftime show.

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The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to slap each of the 20 CBS-owned television stations with the maximum indecency penalty of $27,500. The total penalty of $550,000 is the largest fine levied against a television broadcaster. Most of the FCC’s bigger fines have been against radio stations.

The commission decided not to fine CBS’ more than 200 affiliate stations, which also aired the show but are not owned by the network’s parent company, Viacom.

MTV, a Viacom subsidiary, produced the Feb. 1 halftime show, which featured Jackson and singer Justin Timberlake performing a racy duet. At the end, Timberlake ripped off a piece of Jackson’s black leather top, exposing her right breast to a TV audience of about 90 million.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6063289/

[tom_paine]

1. Who's investigation

ICC (Imperial Communications Commission)

or did the Imperial Congress decide to press it's advantage after all?

Got a link, KoKo?

[KoKo]

2. Here's a link and snip of both stories from MSNBC:

Former U.S. attorney and former news executive to investigate
The Associated Press
Updated: 12:14 p.m. ET Sept. 22, 2004

NEW YORK - CBS News appointed former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and former Associated Press chief executive Louis Boccardi to investigate what went wrong with its story on President Bush’s service in the National Guard.
Thornburgh is a former two-term governor of Pennsylvania and served as attorney general in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

Boccardi retired last year as president and chief executive officer for The Associated Press. He served on the panel that probed operations at The New York Times following the Jayson Blair scandal.

CBS News admitted on Monday that it could not authenticate documents it had used in a “60 Minutes” story that questioned Bush’s service in the Guard during the Vietnam War era. Many critics consider the documents to be fake.

The network and its chief anchor, Dan Rather, have apologized for airing the story.

“I want to say, personally and directly, I’m sorry,” a subdued Rather said Monday on the “CBS Evening News.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6063289/

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FCC fines CBS $550,000 for Super Bowl show
Penalty is largest fine levied against a TV broadcaster
Updated: 1:08 p.m. ET Sept. 22, 2004

WASHINGTON - Federal regulators on Wednesday fined CBS a record $550,000 for Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction,” which exposed the singer’s breast during this year’s Super Bowl halftime show.


The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to slap each of the 20 CBS-owned television stations with the maximum indecency penalty of $27,500. The total penalty of $550,000 is the largest fine levied against a television broadcaster. Most of the FCC’s bigger fines have been against radio stations.

The commission decided not to fine CBS’ more than 200 affiliate stations, which also aired the show but are not owned by the network’s parent company, Viacom.

MTV, a Viacom subsidiary, produced the Feb. 1 halftime show, which featured Jackson and singer Justin Timberlake performing a racy duet. At the end, Timberlake ripped off a piece of Jackson’s black leather top, exposing her right breast to a TV audience of about 90 million.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6063289/

[tom_paine]

3. Christ, CBS ordered those Bushevik FUCKS to skewer THEMSELVES?

New Amerikan Totalitarianism...no beetle-browed KGB Men needed, we do it to ourselves!

The last brick in the Sovietization of Amerikan Pravda Media is complete.

[MallRat]

4. Thornburgh? WTF?

Why is ANY politician of any persuasion getting involved in this matter?

:wtf:

[yolatengo]

5. wait, I thought Faux taught us it was legal and dandy to LIE

Didn't Faux go to court to establish that it was perfectly OK for
them to lie?

Why aren't Freepers and Limpballs coming to Rather's aid and saying:

"It's ok, we've established that news orgs are not required to tell the
truth so whatever Rather did is fine with us! We defend to the DEATH
the right for Faux and others to lie with impunity!"

Bigby

[KoKo]

6. Carvill,Thornburg and former Senator Heinz's old seat.....check this out

CARVILLE BLASTS RIGHT WING, CALLS FOR DECISIVE ACTION
By Mike Hudson

Which brings us to the latest offering by Democratic strategist and Clinton campaign manager James Carville. I first became acquainted with Carville years ago in Pennsylvania when, after the tragic death of Republican Sen. John Heinz, he ran the campaign of an unknown college professor, Harrison Wofford, against that of Republican Gov. Dick Thornburg to fill Heinz's seat.

Thornburg had a huge war chest, the backing of the first President Bush and had served two terms as governor. Wofford wasn't given a snowball's chance in hell. But Carville and his candidate pulled it off, and Thornburg was forced to take a position as secretary of something or other down in Washington.

http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/hadenough.html

[w4rma]

7. Are the heads of CBS stupid? They told a Repug former governor

to investigate themselves?

This country if screwed. We're now a one-party state.

[KoKo]

8. Either that, or they feel confident. I hope it's the latter....but given

what's going on, I guess it's more collusion to bring down the Producer who outed AbuGharib. Rather will remain and be tarnished, but the investigative producers will be fired. :-(

[UTUSN]

9. Wait a Minnit - MARPES (and RATHER) Didn't Lie, Didn't Forge

And I'm believing that BURKETT didn't (forge, anyway) either. This HAS to be a ROVE deal: Maybe WAY indirectly, since he's got flying monkeys like STONE.

It starts with MacDOUGALD the Buckhead calling the plays ----FOUR (4)----hours after CBS airs. He was a sleeper cell.

BURKETT's story rings true---Somebody (STONE?) hooks him up with the documents in March, he starts getting calls (how did they know?) from SEVERAL news outlets. Once he hooks up with CBS, the sleeper cell (BUCKHEAD) goes into action.

Who BENEFITS from all this: Follow the BENEFITS trail:: 1) RATHER is smeared. 2) CBS is smeared. 3) Attempts/distractions to link and smear the KERRY campaign.

There is NO downside for KKKarl.

MARPES/RATHER, even BURKETT, wouldn't be facing felonies------just whoever did the forging.

And then there's the KKKarl trademark that he used with James HATFIELD---------feeding TRUTH to the outlet, then massively DISCREDITING the messenger.