Hmm.... perhaps if CBS pulled it's head of the ground it would realise that perhaps the poor ratings are due to the FALSE story. I love the spin in the article too. The use of "ill-fated" instead of false or the last sentence. It was bloggers who showed that the documents were fabricated on a modern word processor. They were "fake" not "not able to be verified." The spin is ungodly.
NEW YORK - CBS said Wednesday it is cancelling the Wednesday edition of "60 Minutes," insisting the decision was made because of poor ratings and not last fall's ill-fated story about President Bush' s military service. Dan Rather, the newsmagazine's lead correspondent, will contribute stories to the Sunday edition
of "60 Minutes," said CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves. "This was a ratings call, not a content call," Moonves said Wednesday. The newsmagazine spinoff was where Rather reported last September that Bush skirted some duty while in the Texas Air National Guard and a commander felt pressure to sugarcoat an evaluation of him. An independent panel later concluded that documents used in the story could not be verified.
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