Jim Jordan said:
"That's not to say the documents didn't deserve examination. But apparently the entire thing was cooked up by a couple of amateurs on Free Republic. The speed with which it moved was breathtaking."
Why is it breathtaking? Anybody who actually used a typewriter back in the day should have noticed right away, from looking at the documents, that they were not in Courier, and that they didn't look like anything composed in 1972. You don't need days to figure that out.
"The mainstream press is having to follow them," said Jeffrey Seglin, a professor at Emerson College in Boston. "The fear I have is: How do you know who's doing the Web logs?
"And what happens when this stuff gets into the mainstream, and it eventually turns out that the '60 Minutes' documents were perfectly legitimate, but because there's been so much reporting about what's being reported, it has already taken on a life of its own?"
Seglin misses the point. The MSM wouldn't have been writing these stories if there weren't real problems with the documents, as mentioned by document experts. The real story here is that it didn't even occur to anybody in the MSM to check out the veracity of the documents until freepers and bloggers noticed all the problems in the doc.
Besides, instead of worrying that our right-wing bias is a bad thing, the media should be worrying that their left-wing bias is not serving them well when it comes to finding the truth. Every MSM outlet ran huge stories about 60 Minutes' report, and not a single one even considered that the documents could be fake until the internet reports. Where's the MSM's skepticism when it comes to anti-Bush charges?
"-The fear I have is: How do you know who's doing the Web logs?-"
What does it matter as long as the information is accurate. We sure as heck don't know who's doing what at CBS! And look how screwed up they got it.
We 'amateurs' got it right!!
When a grocery store's "mistakes" are always in the store's favor it's considered theft. When the media's "mistakes" are always against conservatives, but never against liberals, it's NOT A MISTAKE.
Besides, instead of worrying that our right-wing bias is a bad thing, the media should be worrying that their left-wing bias is not serving them well when it comes to finding the truth. Every MSM outlet ran huge stories about 60 Minutes' report, and not a single one even considered that the documents could be fake until the internet reports. <B<Where's the MSM's skepticism when it comes to anti-Bush charges?