You and I know that, but the people involved may not have thought that, for various reasons. The forger may have been an amateur, CBS being afflicted with groupthink and absence of critical analysis.
The only other calculus that makes sense is to keep something else out of the news for a few days, and risk the credibility hit as being short-lived and shallow-reaching.
"You and I know that, but the people involved may not have thought that, for various reasons. The forger may have been an amateur, CBS being afflicted with groupthink and absence of critical analysis.
The only other calculus that makes sense is to keep something else out of the news for a few days, and risk the credibility hit as being short-lived and shallow-reaching."
Or, as someone suggested, an office prank that slipped out the door somehow. It has happened here on FR, as I remember.
I just don't know. I do know that if I wanted to produce a fake document of this type, nobody would ever figure it out, and I'm an amateur, but a smart one. I can't imagine a dirty tricks unit being that boneheaded. So, I'm sure there's some other answer. Maybe it's just a prank and we'll find that out. I don't know.