I know this one! Because, as Steyn says, the source of the documents is even more incriminating that the forged memos. Better to look like lying morons than admit that you are party to a fraud. If it stopped at Burkett CBS would not hesitate to fry him. CBS needs people to stop talking about this, and when its affiliates' radio hosts bring it up they aren't toting the agreed upon company line, as stated implicitly in the memo they sent to affiliates. That memo wasn't an explanation so much as a threat to affiliates: this is how we are going to weather this (lie, stall, repeat) so get on board, or else.
My original theory is that Rather was protecting someone dear to him, probably his daughter. Now since so many top brass are still on the lying train I think there must be some more pervasive DNC/Kerry campaign connection.
The ink stained wretches have been slow to get on board, but the story is starting to trickle out thanks to Dobbs and others. Keep it up boys and girls, there's a Pulitzer for the winner (which you should then share with Buckhead, LGF, Powerline, Allahpundit, Mitch Berg, etc.).

I'm actually pretty surprised by Entercom's action here. You'd think they'd be happy to slam a Viacom employee since, by proxy through Infinity, Viacom is one of their largest competitors in Seattle. Weird.

I can only imagine your outrage over Sinclair Broadcasting's decision to order all of its affiliates to boycott a broadcasting of Nightline that aired the names of the servicemembers killed in Iraq.

You'll have to imagine it. Did you actually read my post? The meme is that Maloney got whacked for knocking Rather. Read carefully - I urge caution in jumping to that conclusion. There are many ways to get fired in radio.

It's a rather important distinction.

And I thought Sinclair's move was just fine; Koppel's bit was a cheap bit of biased manipulation.

Yeah, Ted Koppel is a hack. Airing the names of servicemembers who have died would just undermine the war effort, aside from being unpatriotic.

Maybe we could use that cheap bit of biased manipulation against terrorists. They could broadcast all over Iraq the names of the insurgents who have died during the war. That should totally demoralize the insurgency.

Too bad CBS news didn't have a guy like Mark Hyman to impose some unbiased prior restriant.

Brian Maloney has had trouble catching on here in Seattle and has moved around from the all-right-wing KVI to the all-over-the-map KIRO. I have tagged him "Cryin' Baloney" for his bombast, sloganeering, and preference for rhetoric over reason. His conservative bonafides are of the "Angry White Guy" school. His firing may well be coincidence or it may have been because of his criticism of Rather but I sure wouldn't take Maloney's word for it.

John Carlson, a Seattle KVI host and former KIRO co-employee of Rathergate producer Mary Mapes would be a good source to check.

Full disclosure: I am a Bush-supporting, repub-voting libertarian from a suburb of Seattle and have logged > 10 hours listening to Brian's shows over the last several years.

Not exactly related, but Jeff Jarvis recently cautioned against the "heads will roll" metaphor. Kind of grotesque to say that when hostage's heads actually are rolling. I don't care all that much myself, but it's like.. "Oh yeah. Real heads are rolling."