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Viewers Target Dan Rather
Three weeks after offering a scathing--and largely discredited--report on the military service of President George Bush, Dan Rather is still in the hot seat.
Station managers at several CBS affiliates report that a growing group of viewers has mounted a national email campaign calling for the firing of the longtime CBS Evening News anchor over errant reporting of Bush's National Guard service.
The Associated Press reports that general managers in many markets across the country are becoming increasingly concerned about emails from viewers swearing off the network until Rather is axed. They claim that is the only solution to the recent brouhaha over the apparently fake documents that sparked a Rather-fronted 60 Minutes report criticizing President Bush's military service.
"We had so much outcry from our listeners. They were calling and complaining and saying they wouldn't listen to a CBS newscast anymore," Lisa Sinclair, general manager of Norfolk, Virginia-based Sinclair Communications, owner of five stations in the area that is home to the world's largest Naval base, told the Associated Press. "This is a conservative market, and people felt that CBS was exhibiting a great deal of liberal bias and lost credibility with this situation."
Many of the messages contain identical text, prompting suspicion that the oust-Rather campaign is organized.
The mass email gripe, which basically says lose Rather or lose viewers, seems to have gotten its start as a blog on the Website www.Rathergate.com.
"The buck has to stop," Rathergate.com founder Mike Krempasky told the wire service. "He's certainly the face of the story. He's the one who sneered at anyone who dared criticize him on the story for 10 days. He's the one who put his credibility on the line when he said he believed in the story."
Station managers are worried, to say the least. "To be honest, I'm most concerned when the email is coming from a local viewer," Fort Meyers, Florida-based WINK-TV vice president and general manager Gary Gardner told the AP.
So far CBS is standing by its man--but the fervor over the Sept. 8 report shows no signs of slowing. A probe of CBS News is currently underway from former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and former Associated Press chief executive Louis D. Boccardi.
Reps for Rather say he plans to cooperate fully with the investigation.
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