Posted on 09/10/2004 7:14:41 AM PDT by renotse
After being largely confined to the internet and talk radio yesterday, coverage of CBS's apparent usage of forged documents has exploded into more traditional media outlets with several reports from the Associated Press, multiple stories by ABC News, The New York Times, The Lost Angeles Times, Fox News Channel, a front-page story in the Washington Post and more
CBS News hasn't been so pilloried in the press since Dan Rather's 2001 keynote speech at a fund-raiser for Texas Democrats. And it is justly being scrutinized today. Against the advice of many of his colleagues, Rather almost single-handedly put a story on the air that had relied on at least two forged documents
Typographical experts, legacy office equipment collectors, and even the family of the man who supposedly wrote the documents have all called into question CBS's "scoop." The fact that a bunch of people working independently on the internet could so readily debunk an obvious forgery tells a very disturbing story about the journalistic practices of a news organization that has allowed one man's grudge against the Bush family to set its remaining shreds of credibility aflame
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Shouldn't Rather resign?
One from the 2000 election
CBS Experts: ACME Document Verification
How funny!
Based on previous experience in the print media, I'm betting that Rather will be put on a very short leash from here on out. Maybe enough to make him resign.
It doesn't matter whether this debacle does or doesn't get completely exposed in the media. His colleagues now know that Rather's news judgement has become warped and questionable. Probably more than a few news pros at CBS now believe that its beyond time for him to be put out to pasture, and that he's going senile.
True pros - and I'm sure there are some at CBS - will refuse to work in an organization that relies on Rather's declining news judgement.
LOLOLOL
Maybe it's 1420 MHz (frequency of Hydrogen, lighter than airhead, highly explosive).
I love that.
excellent way to start the day!! LOL
Yes, right after they convene the grand jury.
That is truly inspired. ROFLMAO
Damn that is funny.
Hey Freepers - Got to www.cbsnews.com and go to contact us and demand Dan Rather resign for voilation of journalistic ethics. These scum have no shame & need to save face by kicking Dan Blather out.
Remind them that you have sent letters to their sponsors that the sponsors don't have any ethics either if they advertise on a show w/o ethics and that you won't buy their products.
ROFL!
Can someone PLEASE tell me what the new fascination is with "what's the ____, Kenneth?"
Yes, I realize it is a play on an R.E.M. song, but someone, please.... why? How did this get started here? Did everyone suddenly tire of getting their beeber stuned?
Yesterday I sent them a short e mail.
Simply....What's the typeface, Kenneth?
Some wacko beat the snot out of Rather in, I think, NYC. He kept screaming "What's the frequency, Kenneth!!" during the attack.
I should say the attacker was yelling that. Not Dan Rather.
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