Powerline wins, CBS News loses (Both the memo forgery, and AP booing lie)

Frontpage Magazine ^

[jwalsh07]

PowerLine my ass.

TankerKC,buckhead, Howlin and Free Republic rocked CBS looking glass.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Powerline didn't break this.
Free Republic did!

Buckhead posted about the proportional font and declared them forgeries,
47 posted on 09/08/2004 11:59:43 PM EDT by Buckhead
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210662/posts?page=47#47

The first Powerline post was by The Big Trunk on 09/09/2004 at 7:51 AM
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/007760.php

[mass55th]

"I was appalled to see USA Today still running the story with no indication that there is even a question of authenticity as of last night. "

That shouldn't come to any surprise. USA Today is published by The Gannett Press, a long-time liberal news group.

[BluSky]

Yep. Run the story as long as they can before massive, overwhelming* evidence states otherwise.

Political translation - run story to influence Joe-six pack whom gets their 30 minutes per day of news from the MSM. If they hear it from CBS Dan Rather, then it's gospel. Imprint is made and, much harder to remove.

*Overwhelming - as defined by liberals.

[Travis McGee]

Why is Powerline getting all of this undeserved credit? It may be a fine blog, I don't know. But this story was broken by Howlin and Buckwheat, and picked up by the blogs. I am not aware of any research done at Powerline which was not be done at the same time on FR.

[MaineRepublic]

Yeah, well, not to toot my own horn, but it was my posting to Free Republic about the AP changing their "Bush audience booed" story that started that scandal and was picked up by Powerline and eventually spread to other alternatie media sites.

For some reason it seems the story gets broken in Free Republic, but not until it gets picked up by a blogger site, does anyone, even in the alternative media, pay attention to it.

We should be happy that we are getting the exposure.

[tractorman]

CBS can’t ignore the story because their competition won’t let them. The instinct to destroy the competition will prove to be stronger then loyalty for the Kerry campaign.

[bert]

"I told you so" GWB

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

PING

Read the article and reply #22 and just damn this thread please.

I've Freeped FPM in their comments.
We have some honor at stake here.

[Travis McGee]

Good point! When the "name" blogs happen to "discover" a story in FR, they go on to pretend that it is "their discovery" as if FR is just a big bag of nothing.

[two23]

"Rather, who anchored the segment presenting new information on the president's military service, will personally correct the record on-air, if need be, the source explained from New York"

Since Fox News pretty much blew away the alphabet networks during the RNC, no doubt this snafu will give CBS a temporary ratings boost.

Liberals: America's Largest Dysfunctional Family. Ya know what? You can slam them in the face with facts and they still don't get it.

[Mike Fieschko]

Why is Powerline getting all of this undeserved credit?

Because powerlineblog.com released the story into the blogosphere (after they learned of the chatter here).

Others on the 'net and in the MSM (NY Post, for example), have pointed out how FR is the source.

[Mike Fieschko]

When the "name" blogs happen to "discover" a story in FR, they go on to pretend that it is "their discovery" as if FR is just a big bag of nothing.

powerlineblog.com explicitly credited Post 47 at freerepublic.

[Travis McGee]

Why is Powerline getting all of this undeserved credit?

Because powerlineblog.com released the story into the blogosphere (after they learned of the chatter here).

HELLO????? Free Republic is not just "CHATTER!" PL didn't "release it into the blogosphere!" What is Free Republic, chopped liver? FR is the blogosphere, HELLO?????

I'm glad to see PL credit FR, however. But FR is not just amorphous "chatter," FR is the cutting edge of the blogospere.

[Mike Fieschko]

Because powerlineblog.com released the story into the blogosphere (after they learned of the chatter here).

HELLO????? Free Republic is not just "CHATTER!" PL didn't "release it into the blogosphere!" What is Free Republic, chopped liver? FR is the blogosphere, HELLO?????

Hold on. Calm down.

My use of 'chatter' is a bad choice of words. When I typed it, I didn't mean to denigrate, minimize or otherwise ignore the contribution FR made to doing 'the heavy lifting'.

But, this story did not spread out over the net by means of FR, it spread by means of the bloggers.

FR is not the blogosphere. It does its job and the blogosphere does its.

They are different. Blogs are a different method of disseminating information than FR.

If you look at my posts the past few days, you'll see that a lot of them are pointing out Howlin's, TankerKC's and Buckhead's work right at the start, in doing 'the heavy lifting' here. I'm not ignoring what they did or minimizing it.

(pinging the others only because I mentioned them in this post.)

[Old Professer]

The longest lasting effect of all this is that, if the MSM were able to produce the originals the damage to their reputation has been done because the scramble to dissemble points directly to motive on their part for the original broadcast, somewhat akin to David admitting that he used Sarin and an A-Bomb to dispatch Goliath.

[Travis McGee]

The bold-faced title of this thread is offensive to me, and tells me that Frontpage Mag just doesn't "get it."

Or it's part of a new "MSM-ing" of the "name" blogs. See, Frontpage Mag (a blog, actually) is willing to give a tip-o-the-hat to another "name" blog, Powerline.

But not, God forbid, to Free Republic. It's just a new manifestation of "MSM disease, electronic version."

A story is not a "real" story until a "name" blog reports it into the "name" blogosphere.

Excuse me while I vomit.

Free Republic broke this story, and developed this story, and freely linked it to the entire WWW.

Powerline was just one of many "name" blogs which picked up this Free Republic story.

That's my opinion, your mileage may vary.