CBS shouldn't have relied on third parties to do their dirty work. They should have just had ANDY ROONEY do the forgery on his old typewriter.
A tsunami is being created deep in the bowels of CBS. The first gentle wisp of the wave will start in the sales dept. when the ad salesmen get their first gentle rebuffs on future sales. The rebuff will be a let us see what happens attitude. This will make it up to the dept. heads, and finally up to the board rooms. By now the tsunami will be unstoppable and full measures will be taken to reduce all damage. Dan Rather will be the first victim.
They might as well have - it could hardly be a more inept forgery.