CBS's new drama: the CBS Evening News

Okay, so I'm not a big fan of the media, but CBS is taking things to a new low. I try not to watch the news, right? But living with Robert, it's sometimes unavoidable unless I want to leave the room while it's on, and frankly, once I'm comfy in my oversized chair with the puppers sprawled on/wrapped around me, who wants to get up?

So the other night, the CBS Evening My-God-Do-We-Have-An-Agenda News was on, and David Martin at the Pentagon was doing a story about some tapes of Saddam that had to do with weapons of mass destruction -- something about how Saddam appeared on the tapes to be discussing hiding the wmd from the UN inspectors, but in fact, says Martin, we all know now that he never had weapons of mass destruction and was simply trying to make people think he did.

Excuse me???

Let me see if I have this right: if you can't find something, then that in and of itself serves as proof that it doesn't exist. That's what CBS is saying, right?

A vial the size of my little finger filled with the proper chemicals/biologicals could kill hundreds of thousands of people. How many hiding places could you find for such a vial in a country the size of Iraq? A million? A billion?

I've lost much bigger things in my much, much smaller house, but now I don't have to worry about finding them because, according to David Martin's and CBS's logic, they don't exist!

Hmm . . . if I can't find the statement for my truck payment, does that mean I don't have to pay it?

Last night on the CBS MGDWHAA News, some reporter down in Florida did a lead-in to a story about the troubled kid sent to boot camp where he was punched by the guards, then later died. According to the autopsy, he died not from the beating but from a medical condition (though logic says the beating probably contributed to the death, but if the reports don't yet say so, you can't claim it as fact). But that little tidbit didn't stop CBS's fact-challenged reporter from sensationalizing the upcoming video as showing the guards "killing" the boy.

I never thought the day would come when I'd rank CBS News right down there with the likes of the Enquirer, but we're getting darn close. It's about time to change their name to Creative Broadcasting System. Rachel8:08 AM