While we knew the Independent Review Panel would issue their CBS report sometime soon, we were surprised to have it occur during our show. Lucky for us we in the midst of putting together a media segment for the show anyway. However the 60 Minutes story blew most of our other media stories out of the water.

We had originally planned on focusing on the morning news of Rupert Murdoch consolidating power within the Fox empire, the network coverage over the Tsunami, the firing of 5 embedded reporters in Iraq and of course the Armstrong Williams scandal.

As it happened we were only able to touch upon Murdoch briefly. As a side note we have found out that a Fox blocker has been invented allowing the viewer to block the channel, in the same manner one would block an adult channel. But one wonders what would life be like without regular doses of The Simpsons.

Finally for those of you actually watching the network coverage of the Tsunami recovery will know that Dan Rather is reporting live from the region. After reading Jacque Steinberg from the New York Times one gets the feeling Rather rather be there than here- either to end his career on a high note, or just plain get out of Dodge.

To read the entire Independent Panel report please click here.
To read the official press release from CBS please click here.

Please note both of these documents are pdfs.

Posted by leboheme at 11:41 AM