Posted on 09/15/2004 12:44:41 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
CBS News President Andrew Heyward said yesterday that his network will not reveal the source of disputed documents used to report that President Bush received favored treatment in the Texas Air National Guard, even though that decision may mean many Americans would distrust a 60 Minutes report on the subject. "I'm confident the story was appropriately vetted before it went on the air. It is the nature of this kind of investigative reporting that sometimes sources remain confidential," Heyward said in a telephone interview. "We're going to hang tough, even if that leaves some questions unanswered."
The charged political atmosphere surrounding the story has made it more difficult to identify sources publicly, he said.
"This is a political hot potato," Heyward said. "There's a kind of harassment, an attempt to intimidate, that I think gives people pause."
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I always like the 'grass roots' approach when it makes sense. It gives more people 'ownership' of the issue.
Sorry Andrew, we already know who did it :
Nah. I can imagine CBS just accepting documents they knew to be forgeries without actually taking part in their creation. In fact, if CBS helped to make the documents, they would have been decent forgeries.
Whoa! No way! You greviously overestimate CBS's competence!
Now Rather has to prove them wrong......LOLOLOLOL.....he can't......LOLOL
Evelyn Heyward sure wears a lot of hats. Some of her answers are clearly fraudulent and designed to subvert the letter of the law.
...and you over estimate their ARROGANCE!
Question for Stephanopolous: Still think the Pubbies are behind it, Georgie?
The left has inflated themselves to absurd proportions.
There just aren't as many of them (and a lot of them are leaving in droves) as they want us to believe.
Interesting, not one thin dime for JFKerry????
If - on the first day - Rather had said we stand by this but apparently there are new questions and we are investigating - he could have slithered through this.
I'm convinced that CBS is the originator of the fraud.
If they had not posted the memos on the web... that was a mistake on their part. They should have just showed them on TV.
No, a better approach is to say, with frequency, that the longer CBS stonewalls, the more people believe that the source of the documetns was the DNC or Kerry-Edwards. This is a true statement, I believe.
Translation of Heywood statement: "We haven't been hit hard enough in the pocketbook yet."
Fact-checking by the Pajama People is "harassment"?
Oh, when will these '60s blowhards get a clue.
READ:
Our source was someone in or with major connections to the Democrats, and since we wan't Kerry in the White House we won't tell you that.
I heard this on the way home yesterday, and almost flipped. Addition to tagline.
Hear BS
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You said: If a source gives you forgeries, burn 'em (the source, not the forgeries). CBS should not be protecting the person(s) responsible for this fraud.
I agree. I am no student of journalism (although by experience I see lots of BAD journalism), so I don't know the "rules" on confidentiality. But it seems to me that any acceptance of documents or information in confidence carries the implicit condition that the documents or information not be fraudulent. Further, how often do we hear media partially identifying confidential sources in order to add to their credibility... "a highly-placed White House source who asked that he remain unnamed" or the like? CBS could, if it were being honest (which is the crux of the issue now) partially identify the source of these forgeries.... " a DNC operative," "a Kerry campaign representative" etc. We hear none of that, of course, as it would shatter the delicate remnants of CBS' credibility.
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