In a story on Dan Rather's lawsuit against CBS, Rich Noyes, Research Director at the MRC and Senior Editor of NewsBusters, got two soundbites Wednesday night on the 11pm news on WUSA-TV, channel 9 (ch 34 DT), the Gannett-owned CBS affiliate in Washington, DC. Reporter Gary Nurenberg traveled to the MRC's offices to tape Noyes at about 6:30pm. In Nurenberg's story, Noyes blasted Rather:
This is a story attacking President Bush at the height of a campaign that they raced onto the airwaves. And now Dan Rather's complaining that the investigation was biased and he's the victim in all of this. He is not the victim. He's the perpetrator.
After Nurenberg noted how “the conservative Media Research Center has criticized Rather for years,” viewers heard from Noyes again: “His undoing was his own reporting.”
Video clip (35 secs): Real (1 MB) or Windows Media (1.1 MB), plus MP3 audio (200 KB)
WUSA-TV's Web site has streaming Windows Media video of the entire story (link to page with the video player and an article) as aired on the September 19 newscast, which will likely repeat during the 5 to 7am news on Thursday morning.
