To: ambrose
Rather: "Until and unless someone shows me definitive proof that they are not (genuine), I don't see any reason to carry on a conversation with the professional rumor mill."
This is stunning in both its audacity and mendacity. It is up to the public to "prove" the veracity of the output of the media?????
Isn't the media to take all reasonable steps to ensure the veracity of its output prior to publishing or broadcasting it?
All this is right out of "1984". George Orwell only missed by twenty years. I hope that some plaintiff attorneys seek further elucidation by the distinguished Rather and his pack.
134 posted on
09/10/2004 8:23:32 PM PDT by
mtntop3
("He who must know before he believes will never come to full knowledge.")
To: mtntop3
Rather: "Until and unless someone shows me definitive proof that they are not (genuine), I don't see any reason to carry on a conversation with the professional rumor mill."
from
link
"DOCUMENT AND HANDWRITING EXAMINER MARCEL MATLEY ANALYZED THE DOCUMENTS FOR CBS NEWS.
HE SAYS HE BELIEVES THEY ARE REAL...BUT IS CONCERNED ABOUT EXACTLY WHAT IS BEING EXAMINED BY SOME OF THE PEOPLE QUESTIONING THE DOCUMENTS....BECAUSE DETIORATION OCCURS EACH TIME A DOCUMENT IS REPRODUCED.....AND THE DOCUMENTS BEING ANALYZED OUTSIDE OF CBS HAVEBEEN PHOTOCOPIED, FAXED, SCANNED AND DOWNLOADED.... AND ARE FAR REMOVED FROM THE DOCUMENTS CBS STARTED WITH WHICH WERE ALSO PHOTOCOPIES."
Note that the documents that everyone is analysing are the pdf documents that CBS put on their website.
Their own document expert tells CBS that he has concerns about authenticating a document that has deteriorated, yet instead of first getting a copy of the original memos and authenticating them, CBS and Dan Rather unprofessionally and unethically decide to air the story based on copies of the memos that CBS say are [deteriorated] photocopies.
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