20-Sep-2004: Judgment Day for CBS

[Nym90]

Good point. CBS cares about ratings; nothing else. They are a business, and they want to make money. What is so complicated about that?

Apparently this is the number one issue in this campaign...forget about everything else. Let's avoid talking about the real issues, and spend the whole damn campaign talking about Vietnam. Since there aren't any, you know, substantive issues or anything else to talk about....

I'm sorry, but this whole campaign makes me sick. I thought 1988 was the stupidest campaign I had ever seen, but this one takes the cake thus far by a mile.

[Nym90]

Yes, CBS definitely made an error in thinking they could get away with it. My point, however, is that they only care about ratings, not advancing an agenda.

Kerry's Senate voting record, as well as of course President Bush's record in office, is certainly more pertinent than anything that happened during the Vietnam era, and should be an issue.

Even more important are the plans that the candidates have for the future. The voters care about what the candidates will do more than what they have done.