Posted on 09/18/2004 9:40:16 PM PDT by blogblogginaway
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Great graphic.
Bookmarked.
Damn.
There is no way Rather can stand up to this.
Not complete, but accurate.
"There is no way Rather can stand up to this."
Maybe so, but there are STILL idiots at DU who say there has not been one bit of evidence to show that they were forgeries. They keep up a disinformation program on their own boards to delude their own members. Truth means absolutely nothing to the Communists.
MEDIA ETHICS PROJECT SEEKS FCC RULING AGAINST CBS NEWS FOR RATHERGATE
Media Ethics Project (“MEP”) of New York today petitioned the FCC to sanction CBS News and its parent organization, Viacom, Inc., for its recent broadcast of news reports based on forged documents.
In announcing the FCC filing, MEP Chairman William L. Whitely stated: “Most people familiar with Dan Rather’s reports have seen solid evidence from various credible sources showing the documents to be forged. Yet, day in and day out, CBS has stubbornly continued to maintain that the memos are authentic. This supremely arrogant conduct violates the public trust and FCC rules and policies. Viacom cannot be allowed to flaunt the Commission’s rules in this manner. ”
MEP seeks a ruling by the FCC finding that the deliberate actions of CBS and Viacom maintaining the authenticity of the documents, constitute broadcasting of falsified, faked, distorted or staged news reports in violation of Commission policies. MEP is asking the FCC to sanction Viacom including imposing fines and ordering forfeiture of one or more broadcast licenses .
Mr. Whitely added that, “This whole episode must be regarded as a remarkable failure of management. It is truly sad that the proud traditions of professionalism of CBS News, the division built by the likes of Morrow, Severeid, Reasoner, Mudd and Cronkite, have been allowed to slowly fade away. In their place is an organization where unprincipled ego, bias, negligence, partisanship and vindictiveness apparently determine the setting of management policy. Such changes are not in the best interest of CBS, the CBS affiliates and CBS shareholders, nor, most certainly, are they in the public interest as well. Staying to this course, the House that Paley Built will likely become the Network that Rather Wrecked.”
MEP has asked that the FCC expedite its consideration of the group’s Petition for Declaratory Ruling against CBS News.
See a full copy of the MEP Petition for Declaratory Ruling at http://mediaethicsproject.blogspot.com/ or www.mediaethics.8k.com
With MEP's filing, the FCC now has a formal Petition to review requesting that CBS be found guilty for violating Commission policy prohibiting the broadcasting of falsified, faked, distorted or staged news reports as contrary to the public interest.
All interested parties will now be able to contact the FCC to request that it take immediate action on the MEDIA ETHICS PROJECT Petition For Declaratory Ruling Against CBS News.
FCC Contact Information:
Chairman Michael K. Powell: Michael.Powell@fcc.gov ---
Commissioner Kathleen Q. Abernathy: Kathleen.Abernathy@fcc.gov --- Commissioner Michael J. Copps: Michael.Copps@fcc.gov ---
Commissioner Kevin J. Martin: KJMWEB@fcc.gov ---
Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein: Jonathan.Adelstein@fcc.gov
I thought this Kerry shill was in the Army. Even a monkey who has been in the military knows they don't use PO Boxes and they certainly don't use a 0 (01,02,etc) in the day part of the date.
We are blessed by the stupidity of our opponents.
Utterly disgusting that our side is running to the FCC. Let the free market of ideas deal with this one.
"Not Complete"
Kerning? Available Technology? Etc...
CBS is currently working overtime to find their fallguy. No other conversation exists behind closed doors. Someone is looking at jail time, who will it be?
CBS has a big problem. It is impossible to believe these documents were genuine from the get go and CBS ignored warnings from internal sources. How are they going to sell the we got duped angle?
They are checkmated. This is better than any sporting event I have ever witnessed.
"Let the free market of ideas deal with this one."
Let the free market of Viacom stockholders deal with it by staging a shareholder's revolt in getting Blather and Mapes fired so their investments pay off to their highest potential. Rathergate is just another Enron with the corporate structure covering up for internal malfeasance.
No one is looking at jail time, although some folks will be fired.
What CBS is really worried about is the potential destruction of the democrat party.
ABC news is reporting that the democrats had these memos before CBS. This was just a rumor last week, but ABC says it has documents to prove it.
LOL
This is a very good visual analysis. The only thing I'd add is that you can gain an additional number of compelling facts from comparing the forgery with the versions produced by Microsoft Word - not only those identified in this comparison but the similarities between the forged CBS doc vs. the Word reproductions in that they share the same page alignment, paragraph alignment, tab and spacing offsets, etc.
BTTT
Are you suggesting that the creation of fraudulent government documents will be overlooked for political expediency?
It must be getting lonely over at CBS. Is the NY Times the only one left with any pretense of covering for CBS?
It is good to see ones enemies eating their own.
If you follow the link to the site, you can email the graphic to someone. I encourage you to send it on to evening@cbsnews.com so you can help Dan "break the story", as he put it.
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