UP Licensing on CBS Evening News on 12/18/03

Just received word from a friend that UP's licensing issue will supposedly make the CBS Evening News Thursday night, 6:30PM Eastern.< Anyone know how to get a copy of the report (after broadcast of course)? I sure whatever it says will be changed 100 times by the time it hits this group. Also is the the publicity the UP does not want?

Well I watched it and IMHO it was about as unflattering to the UP as a national newscast could get. Terms such as "The New Grinch" and "The RR (robber) Barons" are not terms I'm sure UP likes to hear over a national newscast.

Hummm. Sort of a David and Goliath?

In the sweeps just ended, the Fox News prime time schedule - the entire evening - averaged 1.28 million viewers. A ten percent decline from same month last year. CBS Evening News - just 30 minutes - clocked right at 8.1 million viewers.

CTucker NY

It was short but not sweet. I thought it was pretty good at making their assertion that UP is trying to get the little train guys. Watch it and decide for yourself.

Hmmmm - I noticed the "Deadly Knockoffs" story at the top of the list. I wonder how long before UP's lawyers claim that unauthorized models with UP markings lead to support for terrorism.

Maybe they have a point. I know that _I'd_ never tell if somebody blew up the executive washroom at UP HQ.

With that incredibly STUPID comment, you can join Rathburn in the bit-bucket of infamy. That's hardly a laughing matter these days.

bit-bucket of infamy. That's hardly a laughing matter these days.<

Besides _they_ monitor lists these days, haven't you read the patriot act????

Sarcasm and irony do not sit well, eh? I do agree that the climate of crying "terrorist" and justifying every incursion on American liberties with the need for heimatssicherheit (the predecessor of "Homeland" Security) and the omnipresent and eternal War Against Terror is hardly a laughing matter.

Some of us can remember joking about the Weathermen, who for all their overblown doctrinaire rhetoric seemed incapable of doing anything other than blowing up executive washrooms.

Some of us can remember the most violent voices in anti-war organizations, the ones who urged things like maintaining armed sentinels and cacheing guns, turning out to be "law enforcement" agents (the quotes because they were committing illegal acts themselves) from the police or FBI. I had direct personal experience of that courtesy of the San Diego PD "Red Squad".

So buck up, Joe, get a grip, and remember that most American piece of folk wisdom:

"F--- 'em if they can't take a joke."

Can you at least try to make sense?

Ah, Fox News. Now there's a great source for facts.

Let's see, a study showed that of the appallingly high number of Americans (over 60%, as I recall) who mistaking believe that Iraq terrorists were involved in 9/11 --- most watched Fox News.

Mike Tennent "IronPenguin"

Only leftist, eh?

There's a word for people like that: "One-way SOB"

None in my closet, Ratty, that's right wing stuff - ask your buddy Pat Buchanan. And I won't be raiding yours for sheets and pointy dunce cap hoods, your robes are safe, and so's that black suit you keep hung upside down.

My buddy? He was against the war in Iraq so doesn't that make him your buddy, or should we just share him, me in robes, you with the arm bands and bull horn?

What study? What proof do you have of this? Source? And what is 'your' way to get 'real' facts?

Anybody who actually believes anything they see on any of the network newscasts deserves whatever they get.

Don