Letters to the Editor
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Easily put to rest
This would be easily put to rest by having the "technical problem" explained publicly by the technicians who were called in to fix it on an emergency basis.
I'm sure there's some sort of log or something showing that station personnel found themselves unable to broadcast and called in people to get on top of the problem to get them back on air ASAP.
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Well D'Uh!
Crook rejects criminal charge in crime.
I believe in the initial article I read about this, they quoted a NY CBS exec not only denying a tech prob in NY but saying as far as he knew this could only be an editorial decision on Alabama's end.
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as Dana Carvey's Church Lady would say
"Isn't that convenient"
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Out of curiosity
In an interview with the New York Times today, Stan Pylant, the station's general manager, insisted that WHNT had never intended to block the show. A review, he said, had turned up a technical problem in the receivers.
Did the "technical problem" occur during the whole 60 Minutes episode, or just during the duration of the segment? As ever, the "whoopsie" excuse of the Right in this country appears again.
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BREAKING!! Pope denies he's anti-Catholic! More to come...
When they say later that night, do they mean between the Ron Popeil infomercial and the one for Hits of the 80's & 90's?
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It Stinks On Ice
- First, only the segment on the Alabama governor is not aired
- Then it's CBS's fault
- Then, when CBS says it ain't so, all of the sudden it's a local receiver that was at fault.
- Then they rebroadcast it later that evening. But wait, if the receiver failed during downlink, where did they get the segment from? I realize that they could have gotten it later somehow, but that's a part of the story. Shouldn't someone find out how they got it to rebroadcast it?
- Maybe the owner did support John Kerry; who knows? But Scott Horton in the original Harper's piece noted that WHNT was "noteworthy for its hostility to Siegelman," and the report was on Siegelman, not Kerry.
It could all be innocent, blind bad luck. It could.
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And Bushs Latest AG Continues Too Stonewall Congress
It should not surprise many that King George II's attorney general will not investigate the Bush crime family staff members Miers and Bolton for the firings of fed prosecutors. Just one more pathetic chapter from the most corrupt administration in the history of the white house. Just one more reason for the most secret White House in history. If you're gonna continually break the law (and Bush has) cover your tracks. Whoever inherits the next term in the White House may God have mercy on your soul...you'll need it to clean out the chit deposited by Bush and his criminal cohorts. Anyone still working for the Imperial President could have very little morals and NO ethics. Do your best President Obama your work is certainly cut out for you....the Bush stench will waffle around the Oval Office for many years to come. Perhaps biohazard suits for anyone entering the Oval Office with exceptions being made for Republicans as they apparently have no problem with the Bush stench. Go figure......
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A real simple remedy
Just announce to the viewers the date(s) and time(s)of a replay of the segment as a public service. If WHNT has noting to hide, and has a desire to do right by their viewers, the answer is really that simple.
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Even my dad...
...a lifelong Alabama conservative, questioned the coincidence of the local CBS station not being able to air only the Seigelman segment of 60 Minutes. My understanding is that the rest of the hour-long program was shown.
I, however, do not share my father's generous doubt. Having watched our government threaten its citizens,"Watch what you say, watch what you do" and influence Southern politics, "Max Cleland is soft on national defense," over the last seven years, I'm filled with disgust that the Rove machine has moved into my great state.
But it could be argued that Alabama very unwittingly played a part in this Bush saga a long time ago. There is a very well-known offer in my home state to anyone who can give any evidence that Bush Jr. ever showed up for any national guard training in Alabama. Trust me, the citizens of Alabama would gladly take up that offer if someone had seen Bush Jr. Obviously no one did.
If Rove wants to spread his garbage somewhere else, I'm saddened, but I can't stop it. However, I don't want his kind in my home state.
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just plain old bad
medicine down there in Alabama.
I find it far too convenient that the "60 Minutes" program segment implicating Rove and a slew of Alabama Republican insiders would fall off the television grid at that critical juncture when the former governor's situation is discussed and the president's right hand man is implicated. Believe that and you just fell off the proverbial turnip truck.
Bad, bad, bad. All of it is bad.
Is it possible? Yes. Probable? No.
This is bad, and Alabama needs to correct it.
The impetus for such corection must come from both parties, loudly and clearly.
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Their explanation doesn't fly.
I've been a professional broadcast engineer for 25 years. There is absolutely no way I'm buying the story that "equipment failure" took that segment off the air.
This is a big-market TV station. The idea that they had no backup for their main network satellite receiver is preposterous. Anyone who knows anything about network program delivery via satellite knows there are at least two feeds of all the major network feeds, on different satellites, specifically to prevent this kind of failure and to provide coverage during sun outages. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_outage)
Sorry, WHNT, not buying it. Someone cut that feed off.