CBS' apologies and efforts to make amends

Commendably, Glenn Reynolds is using both his MSNBC column and InstaPundit to keep the heat on CBS News to complete and announce the results of its long-silent investigation of Ra^thergate. Meantime, he and PunditGuy note that CBS has apologized for preempting the closing minutes of a recent episode of "CSI:NY" with the news of Yasser Arafat's startling death. According to Reuters,

CBS, owned by Viacom Inc., said it has scheduled a repeat of the episode for Friday so viewers who missed the ending can see the entire broadcast.

I suppose that's one way of making amends. Which leads one to wonder:  Will CBS interrupt its regular programming with the results of the Rathergate investigation?  I bet there would be huge ratings for a live, exclusive telecast of Dan Rather cleaning out his desk, trudging with an armload of boxes down through the hallways and elevators of Black Rock, and trying to hail a cab.  (Work in some special effects — something like that trucks-and-cold-gutter-slush scene from the new "Bridget Jones" movie promos ... yeah, that's the ticket!)

And while we're on the general subject of "fake but accurate":  Shouldn't the crack CSI:NY forensic team — which clearly outranks CBS News in Viacom's pecking order — be assigned to figure out Arafat's mysterious cause of death?

Or better yet — shouldn't they be dispatched to help Dick Thornburgh and Louis D. Boccardi get to the bottom of Rathergate? Lots of us are hoping that that particular "episode" will ultimately involve a whole series of [career] fatalities — even though the political candidacy it was designed by its culprits to slay survived and fully recovered.  And those guys are pros — they get every case solved by the closing credits, within the hour.  Messrs. Thornburgh and Boccardi, by contrast, seem to be having problems meeting their announced schedule.

In fact, I think they ought to make this a joint effort — Thornburgh and Boccardi should be joined by the full teams from CSI:NY, CSI:Miami, and CSI:Las Vegas. (Have I left any out? Is there a "CSI:Abilene"?) Otherwise, this might end up being solved on "Cold Case," which would be a genuine miscarriage of justice.