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The MSM is dead. There have been too many lies in the past week for them to ever recover their reputation.
1 posted on 09/10/2004 6:29:34 AM PDT by MaineRepublic
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To: MaineRepublic
Joining The New York Times as "The Daily National Enquirer"
2 posted on 09/10/2004 6:31:53 AM PDT by bannie (Liberal Media: The Most Dangerous Enemies to America and Freedom)
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To: MaineRepublic

this is a beautiful thing....the Kerry water carriers have been caught. The Kerry campaign thought this story, kitty kelley would help them...it backfired big time.


3 posted on 09/10/2004 6:32:37 AM PDT by Pondman88
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To: MaineRepublic

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.

CBS News had the story on their website last night without any indication of credibility concerns.

These guys are amazing.


4 posted on 09/10/2004 6:33:30 AM PDT by Paloma_55
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To: MaineRepublic

They were a tottering corpse years ago but did not know it. ALTERNATE MEDIA RULES!


5 posted on 09/10/2004 6:33:33 AM PDT by gunnygail (Founding member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. (I operate the minigun, more fun):.)
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To: MaineRepublic
“The reputation and integrity of the entire news division is at stake”

That was demonstrably lost a long time ago!

6 posted on 09/10/2004 6:34:55 AM PDT by MountainPete
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To: MaineRepublic

DAN CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH

“Dan Rather is the undisputed head pooh-bah of the news division at CBS. Rather has spent 40 years solidifying his position. His former colleague Bernard Goldberg reports that Mr. Rather is extremely sensitive to criticism from any source. In his book "Bias," Mr. Goldberg quotes CBS News President Andrew Haywood: "Dan can't distinguish between mainstream criticism and criticism coming from the extremists. It's all the same to him." Goldberg writes that in the 1980s there was a vice president at CBS whose unofficial title was "vice president in charge of Dan Rather. "His main job was keeping Dan Rather happy." Little wonder, then, that CBS News refuses to acknowledge the liberal bias that is a staple of CBS News. No one can get through to Dan Rather. He is impervious to criticism.”
http://www.bbhq.com/lonely.htm


Dan Rather’s Liberal Bias

http://ratherbiased.com/news/content/view/145/

http://www.mediaresearch.org/projects/rather20th/welcome.asp

http://www.mediaresearch.org/specialreports/2004/report063004_p1.asp


7 posted on 09/10/2004 6:37:35 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: MaineRepublic
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.

Beautiful. It just keeps getting better! The MSM prints a story that everyone knows is false. Not only does it shred their credibility as a reliable news source, but it makes them appear to be in cahoots with the fraud. This is Christmas come early.

8 posted on 09/10/2004 6:41:03 AM PDT by randog (What the....?!)
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To: MaineRepublic
The next thing ya know the MSM will tell us if we are steadfast we can beat the Kaiser( the German King, not the Health facility).
11 posted on 09/10/2004 6:47:12 AM PDT by crazyhorse691 (I volunteer to instruct JFK on the meaning of a purple heart!!)
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To: MaineRepublic

12 posted on 09/10/2004 6:47:56 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Kerry = The Wrong Candidate in the Wrong Country at the Wrong Time (post 9/11)!)
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To: MaineRepublic
My feeling is that cbs will try to "clinton" this story out. That is stick w/ it and ignore all evidence to the contrary.

The coming test is going to be whether or not FR and the rest of conservative media can drive them to ground, tree them like a coon, and shine a flash light attached to a 30-06 in their eyes.

13 posted on 09/10/2004 6:48:55 AM PDT by Pietro
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To: MaineRepublic

How will it be corrected? Rather is an operative of the Kerry cammpaign so mabe he show step down as news reader.


15 posted on 09/10/2004 6:56:42 AM PDT by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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To: MaineRepublic

Regarding the Main Stream Media being dead: you are spot on. Basically, we are better at their jobs than they are. We have been all along. Average Americans, the ones who do not seek publicity, work every day, have deep convictions and boat loads of common sense; see through the BS. They always have.

We are told forever by the Manhattan elitists that we are essentially 'fly over' people. Their hubris gives them drunken judgement and they believe they are the only ones with 'superior thoughts'. They are wrong. The surest proof is in watching elections going back to McGovern and seeing them predict one outcome year after year only to be confounded when the silent masses go to the polls.

Its actually quite funny to see each new crop of young, bow tied, ivy educated, self-involved talking head do the same thing in each election cycle. They don't write history about us but in our own way, we make history. My hat is off to the Swift Freepers who killed this CBS story on the merits using their common sense, well before it was allowed to grow.


18 posted on 09/10/2004 7:16:43 AM PDT by johnnycap
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To: MaineRepublic
PowerLine my ass.

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

21 posted on 09/10/2004 7:21:59 AM PDT by jwalsh07 (GIVE'M HELL, ZELL!)
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To: MaineRepublic
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
22 posted on 09/10/2004 7:26:08 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth...)
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To: MaineRepublic
"I told you so" GWB


28 posted on 09/10/2004 7:40:12 AM PDT by bert (Peace is only halftime !)
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To: mhking

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.


29 posted on 09/10/2004 7:52:33 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth...)
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To: MaineRepublic
"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.

31 posted on 09/10/2004 8:05:05 AM PDT by two23
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To: MaineRepublic

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.


36 posted on 09/10/2004 9:56:12 AM PDT by Old Professer (The enemy is among us; he is us; we know it, we dare not say it - someone will be offended.)
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