Posted on 09/10/2004 6:29:33 AM PDT by MaineRepublic
Matt Drudge, who crashed our server earlier today by linking to our first post on the 60 Minutes hoax, is now headlining: "CBSNEWS LAUNCHES INTERNAL INVESTIGATION AFTER SUSPICIOUS BUSH DOCS AIRED." Drudge reports:
CBS NEWS executives have launched an internal investigation into whether its premiere news program 60 MINUTES aired fabricated documents relating to Bush National Guard service, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. "The reputation and integrity of the entire news division is at stake, if we are in error, it will be corrected," a top CBS source explained late Thursday.
The source, who asked not to be named, described CBSNEWS anchor and 60 MINUTES correspondent Dan Rather as being "shell-shocked" by the increasingly likelihood that the documents in question were fraudulent.
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.
Tomorrow morning, dinosaur media across the country will be headlining the 60 Minutes "scoop" as a blow to the Bush campaign. Before their newspapers are even printed, not only is the story obsolete, but CBS is in full retreat. As Stephen Hayes reported earlier today, Power Line "led the charge" against the 60 Minutes hoax today. But the credit really goes to the incredible power of the internet. We knew nothing; all of our information came from our readers. Many thousands of smart, well-informed people who only a few years ago would have had no recourse but perhaps to write a letter to their local newspaper, now can communicate and share their expertise in real time, through sites like this one. The power of the medium is incredible, as we've seen over the last fourteen hours.
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TankerKC,buckhead, Howlin and Free Republic rocked CBS looking glass.
That shouldn't come to any surprise. USA Today is published by The Gannett Press, a long-time liberal news group.
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.
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.
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.
CBS cant ignore the story because their competition wont let them. The instinct to destroy the competition will prove to be stronger then loyalty for the Kerry campaign.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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