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Perky Katie and Uncle Walter

The cartoon has layers of meaning, perhaps one can read more than was intended

At first glance there is the comparison with the superficial leftist with the most trusted man in America. Say what you will now about uncle Walter, but the fact is he was the voice America, trusted, and respected. His mane of near white hair provided the illusion of wisdom. His experience as a reporter and war correspondent was yet more reason for respect. One story he told was about the D Day landing. In the confusion he lost his helmet and picked up one he found on the beach. He scurried to safety to get his bearings only to find a host of soldiers hugging his rear. He had donned the helmet of a slain officer and the troopers followed his lead. The bar on the back of the replacement helmet led them to do so.

Now comes his antitheses , Perky Katie. She tries to look young and beautiful. She exudes charm. She grew up trodding the path already deeply furrowed by her predecessors. She may have done some reporting, but mostly she was talk TV. She read some news provided by others and she interviewed people dumb enough or desperate enough to submit to her sugared blather or her vile recriminations. She was an on camera cheer leader, cheering her left wing team on or vigorously defaming her opposition

There are lots of ways to compare the two but it is near certain that no one would follow the Perky one up a beach under fire. The concept is inconceivable. Her-audience will be old folk. They will reject her in total. Her days as a newsie are over before she begins. If she has any success at all it will be as an interviewer. For that to happen, the 6:30 news will be gone from CBS.

The cartoon says something about CBS as well. There is a big empty chair. The empty chair is metaphor for what once was a big news organization. It is now an empty chair. It has lost the best audience and struggles on handicapped like General Motors with an overabundance of old and burnt out employees.

There is also a big empty table. The table has no papers or scripts just a CBS with Katie will have lost the ability to have a real pro convey the news. A shrunken CBS can't handle the Chair or the desk.

CBS Evening News is Gone. CBS evening talk will soon begin.

Tim Russert and General Electric deserve damnation.

"Still, Russert continued pressing Chertoff on his fitness for office, saying, "many Americans believe now is the time for accountability." News Max

Today Tim Russert went beyond the pale, beyond the requirement of his masters to get the President by asking Secretary Chertoff for his resignation.

In making the vicious attack Russert committed journalistic malpractice. He is no longer worthy to serve in his position of respected journalist.

Mr Russert has the right of free speech. He does not have the right to attack an excellently functioning government official working hard for Americans when the attack is solely political and get away with it unscathed. Mr Russert has been given his marching orders and like the propagandists working in Nazi Germany for Josef Gobbles, he did what he was told. Mr Russert has no concern for America or for Americans. His sole concern is his own sorry hide and he will do any thing to preserve it, including carrying out terrible orders..

Mr Russert is an employee of the General Electric Company. The American people should take that fact to heart and make General Electric sorry for the disservice it is doing to our great country in time of catastrophic stress. General Electric is persona non grata.

Democrat Rants, the Associated Press and the hapless Kingsport Times News

Once again the Kingsport Times News is guilty of bias in reporting the news of the week. Once again the paper published in a medium sized Tennessee city ignored the most important political story of the week. The fairpress.org website in it’s Media Bias 101 lessons lists bias by story selection or bias by omission as being equivalent to bias by lie. The question is why would the Times News take such a biased course?

The unhinged rant by Democratic Senator Durbin comparing the prison at Guantanamo with the torture of Nazi concentration camps and Soviet Gulags was deselected by the Times News editors. A story where numerous Republican Senators took to the Senate floor and denounced the Democrat Senator form Illinois, some even calling for censure, was ignored. The story of a Democrat laboring mightily to bring down a President was ignored. The question is why?

Did the editors think their readers did not need to learn the Senator’s rant backfired and that they must shield their left wing agenda from the onslaught of harsh and justified criticism that resulted. Or, did the editors insulated from the world in a medium sized Tennessee city simply not know the events occurred? Since the Times News has only one link to the outside world, the fact that they did not know is a reasonable assumption.

The Times News has only one usable link to the world, the Associated Press wire. A wire is a 19th century expression for a telegraph line. If the AP decides that a story is contrary to it’s agenda of bringing down a President, the story doesn’t make it on the wire. If a story doesn’t propagandize the agenda, it doesn’t exist. Omission is bias. The bias was shown earlier when the AP and the TN failed for many days to report the substance of Dan Rather's attempt to foist fradulent documents as truth. Such is also the case with the Durbin story.

The Times news is slavishly bound to the AP and permits no other sources of news even though more reliable and significantly more truthful. The Times News lives in the 1930’s world of a telegraph wire and telex machine with only one source of national and international news at the other end. Even though there is good TN coverage of the world of computers and of the internet, use by the paper is apparently not editorially permitted. The Times News by relying on a terminally biased AP has degenerated into a purely local news source. The Times News in an unreliable and untruthful source of real news beyond the county line.