CBS Meeting Leads to Firings?

Call me a a conspiracy theorist, but I think it's awfully interesting that the firings at CBS come just a few days after CBS News executives met with White House communications director Dan Bartlett.

Supposedly, the meeting was to "repair chilly relations with the Bush administration". If I were a suspicious person, I might think that the White House asked for the firings in exchange for improved access for CBS.

But why would I be suspicious of the Bush Administration?