Here's the world we live in today. This is from
All Access, a site that reports on radio news and events:
The continuing saga of the BUSH Guard memos have led to one major CBS RADIO affiliate dropping the 4p CT daily network newscast anchored by DAN RATHER- Talk KPRC-A/HOUSTON PD KEN CHARLES announced on CHRIS BAKER's afternoon show that KPRC will not air RATHER's reports until the truth about the memos' legitimacy is established. CHARLES told BAKER that RATHER has "become the story," and said that an anchor cannot both report the news and "be" the news.
Note how the program director announced this decision on the air during afternoon drive. How cute.
Houston is the seventh-largest market in the United States, and KPRC is consistently that market's top-rated talk or news-talk station. So when some candy-ass Clear Channel pencil-pusher (or, more likely, the people above him on the power chain) decide a guy who's been at CBS News for 42 years isn't singing the Repug talking points with enough enthusiasm, they shit on him and accuse him of trying to be the news. How double cute.
And yes, Clear Channel owns KPRC. And yes, KPRC also airs Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, and Matt Drudge. And yes, KPRC seems to be quite eager to show their support for Chicken George — and their lack of support for John Kerry.