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60 Minutes Has Used Bogus Memos In Past
The Washington Post ^ | 4/13/1999

Posted on 09/11/2004 12:31:59 PM PDT by blogblogginaway

Edited on 09/11/2004 1:07:02 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

For the second time in four months, CBS's "60 Minutes" has made an on-air apology regarding a report about drug smuggling. This time it's over a memo that turned out to be bogus.

Correspondent Lesley Stahl delivered the apology on Sunday's broadcast, as part of a settlement with a customs official who had sued the newsmagazine.


(Excerpt) Read more at pqasb.pqarchiver.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 60minutes; bogusmemo; cbsnews; medialies; seebs
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This article can be found in The Washington Post archives.....April 1999
1 posted on 09/11/2004 12:32:00 PM PDT by blogblogginaway
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2 posted on 09/11/2004 12:35:51 PM PDT by Prime Choice (The Log Cabin Republicans AREN'T.)
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SeeBS dosenm't report, they make the news.
3 posted on 09/11/2004 12:36:23 PM PDT by GaltMeister (This is not my tagline. My family has it. The tagline belongs to my family.)
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This sort of arrogant sloppiness is a result of excessive drug use among the jounalists of the 'Stonedest Generation'.


4 posted on 09/11/2004 12:36:36 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Thank you Rush Limbaugh-godfather of the New Media.)
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The "Tiffany" network is turning into a pawn shop.


5 posted on 09/11/2004 12:38:22 PM PDT by Semper Paratus
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LOL!


6 posted on 09/11/2004 12:40:44 PM PDT by Huck (What's the typography, Kenneth?)
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To: Prime Choice

Great bumper sticker!


7 posted on 09/11/2004 12:46:39 PM PDT by Angelwood (FReepers are Everywhere! We Support Our Troops! (Hillary's Vast Rt Wg Conspiracy))
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bump


8 posted on 09/11/2004 12:52:53 PM PDT by need_a_screen_name
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But that report, which was presented by Mike Wallace, cited a memo said to be written by Rudy Camacho

I really think Chris Wallace should recuse himself from any interview and discussion of CBS and their newest fraud.

9 posted on 09/11/2004 12:59:25 PM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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The documents used by CBS as well as their supposed vetting has been totally discredited..IMO their best bet is to retract and apologize to mitigate any possible damages...

yes I know dead people can't be defamed but it looks like a fraud on the family and the public to me as well as President Bush....Possibly the RNC could sue for loss of contributions...

Another possibility would be Unfair Business Practices, California has a liberal law against deceptive practices, Business & Profession Code Unfair Practices... anyone in the state has standing only need prove deception not fraud......probably easiest prove...

I would imagine Marcel Martel stating one thing in his "book" and then another on TV is deceptive...


interesting article on defaming the dead:
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20040312.html
10 posted on 09/11/2004 1:05:58 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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And just think...before Rush/Fox/Internet, all of these stories would have been accepted at face value.


11 posted on 09/11/2004 1:28:57 PM PDT by Pete98
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Good catch. Welcome to FR.


12 posted on 09/11/2004 1:30:32 PM PDT by John Jorsett (Kerry-Edwards: FORGING AHEAD)
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I doubt the RNC will be able to sue for a loss of contributions, because there probably isn't any. Indeed, I strongly suspect that the RNC, like the Swiftvets, only grows richer when the DemonRats try to perpetrate frauds like this one.


13 posted on 09/11/2004 1:31:13 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: Prime Choice; GaltMeister

We don't report the news. We MAKE the news!


You both nailed it!

14 posted on 09/11/2004 1:33:50 PM PDT by freestyle
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According to jmstein7, there are several federal laws which have been broken. This is really serious stuff, forging military documents.


15 posted on 09/11/2004 1:36:39 PM PDT by CyberAnt (Sen.Miller said, "Bush is a God-fearing man with a good heart and a spine of tempered steel")
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According to jmstein7, there are several federal laws which have been broken. This is really serious stuff, forging military documents.


that may be true but the forger is one thing..unless you can prove conspiracy that lets Rather off the hook without some other cause of action..he needs to be visited by law enforcement and questioned..


16 posted on 09/11/2004 1:45:50 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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FReepers,

Please keep up the posts. Also please support the websites that do the research to prove that these documents are frauds. We will win this. The MSM can't bury this. CBS will lose. Keep it up. Have faith. We will prevail!


17 posted on 09/11/2004 1:50:26 PM PDT by '61 Libertarian
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Does it mention Mary Mapes? Was she possibly the producer of that story?


18 posted on 09/11/2004 1:55:11 PM PDT by EllaMinnow (John Kerry won't be happy until he's made us all as miserable as he is.)
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I really think Chris Wallace should recuse himself from any interview and discussion of CBS and their newest fraud"

Naw--'cause that means we can't use Ben Barne's kid or the Kiillian family.


19 posted on 09/11/2004 2:56:59 PM PDT by wildbill
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To: Miss Marple; Howlin; PhiKapMom

archive nugget ping


20 posted on 09/11/2004 2:59:07 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat ( "History? I love history! So sequential...")
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