CBS Clocks Out on Airing Reagan's Convention Speech

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A63170-2004Jul19?language=printer

CBS News will not cover Ron Reagan's prime-time speech at the Democratic National Convention live and in its entirety because it won't have enough words.

"We discussed it, but we don't plan to do it as of now," CBS News President Andrew Heyward told TV critics Monday. "It's about an eight-minute speech."

None of the broadcast networks plans to carry the speech live. Heyward acknowledged that the very fact the son of a Republican president and GOP icon was going to give a speech at the Democratic convention was newsworthy. But, he said, he thinks it is sufficient for CBS to handle it on "The Early Show" and the evening news.

"To take another hour of coverage for an eight-minute speech, I don't think is justified," he said.

[bluestateguy]

1. CBS seems to have a soft spot on anything having to do with Reagan

The same loons who hounded them out of the Reagans miniseries could be reactivated if CBS doesn't toe the line.

[Ivote]

2. Watch It On

www.c-span.org
They are covering the whole thing. Gavel To Gavel.
Thank you c-span.

[Wednesdays]

3. Sad day for democracy...

Toby Keith said it best in "The West Wing," as he put news exectives in their place:

“There isn’t going to be a horse race to cover either in New York or San Diego. But we gave you the airwaves for free 70 years ago and 357 days a year you can say who’s up and who’s down, who won the West and lost the South, but what’s wrong with eight days -- not every year but every four years -- showing our leaders talking to us? Not a fraction of what they said, but what they said?”

Also see:
http://www.newsaic.com/ftvww63p.html#conventions

[Myrina]

4. I think you're referring to "Toby Zeigler "?

http://www.geocities.com/twwcookiejar/tobypage.html

:shrug: