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What the CBS Report actually admits
The American Thinker ^ | Jan. 11, 2005 | Clarice Feldman

Posted on 01/11/2005 7:40:44 PM PST by Kitten Festival

I, who never watch CBS News, spent yesterday afternoon, reading the lengthy Thornburgh/Boccardi Report. Within its considerable limitations, it is a fine, well-detailed view of the CBS TANG memo scandal. While it could have asked other questions, and utilized other investigative approaches (for example, analyzing the telephone records of various key individuals), given its methodology, it tells us quite a bit that is embarrassing to those who are paying for it.

The Report reveals what most of us who don't watch network news already knew: CBS News is a shoddy operation all around, one more concerned with production values and beating the competition to provocative shows than it is with conveying useful, authentic information to its viewers. And at the conclusion of my read, I think CBS owes one final thing to its audience: a detailed on-air review of the significant evidence contrary to its September broadcasts, which it had and either failed to air or misrepresented. Since I doubt they will do this, let me review what the Report itself actually reveals.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: boccardi; cbs; corrupt; damning; danrather; finalreport; forgeries; liars; liberals; rather; report; thornburgh
Here's the most careful analysis I've seen on this case so far. Well worth reading.
1 posted on 01/11/2005 7:40:45 PM PST by Kitten Festival
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To: Kitten Festival

I can't believe no one's responded to your post. This is an outrageously good article.


2 posted on 01/11/2005 8:55:55 PM PST by Auntie Mame ("Whether you think you can or think you can't -- you are right." Henry Ford)
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To: Kitten Festival

bttt


3 posted on 01/11/2005 9:00:30 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Kitten Festival

Bookmark for later reading.


4 posted on 01/11/2005 9:04:59 PM PST by exnavychick (There's too much youth; how about a fountain of smart?)
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To: Auntie Mame

Rush Limbaugh linked this one directly by name and announced it on his radio show. Yes, it is well worth reading by one of American Thinker's finest writers.


5 posted on 01/11/2005 9:09:30 PM PST by Kitten Festival (The Thug of Caracas has got to go.)
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