WSJ: Forgery Charges Could Damage CBS Credibility

Wall Street Journal ^ | September 15, 2004 | JOE FLINT and BROOKS BARNES

[OESY]

Did someone write Forgeries "COULD" Damage CBS Credibility?

"That's the problem when you rely on days-old information from print journalism instead of immediately turning to FreeRepublic.com for Breaking News," said this unabashed supporter.

[jtminton]

Forgery Charges Could Damage CBS Credibility

Ya think?!?

[68skylark]

Forgery Charges Could Damage CBS Credibility

You don't say.

[Kenton]

WSJ: Forgery Charges Could Damage CBS Credibility

Yes, they could. Sort of like an asteroid the size of Antarcica could damage the earth's ecosystems.

[Piquaboy]

As far as I am concerned, they lost their credibility a very long time ago.

[COUNTrecount]

The seeBS eye-con should be changed to this.

[Kenton]

Antarcica=Antarctica

[ASA Vet]

CBS Credibility

OXYMORON ALERT!

[IPWGOP]

Yes indeed -- the damage is already done. Bloggers ROCK!!

Here is a copyright-ready cartoon for any use that's noncommercial... emails, signs, flyers, whatever

[FreePaul]

CBS? What "credibility"?

[snakeoil]

If I read something correctly yesterday it stated CBS viewers were up.
Strange world we live in or is it.

[Cultural Jihad]

"That's the problem when you rely on days-old information from print journalism instead of immediately turning to FreeRepublic.com for Breaking News," said a concerned citizen identified by CBS News as a 'politican partisan.'

;-)

[Just mythoughts]

"Did someone write Forgeries "COULD" Damage CBS Credibility? "


WHAT credibility??? Wonder aside from the FREEPERS who watched how many Americans actually did watch???

Other than the liberals salivating and the FREEPERS who else would watch? Could it be that this is exactly the plan from the beginning, that somebody would call the documents forgeries? Maybe the only thing that did not go according to the plan was the speed with which the "forgeries" were outed and by whom.

[Cboldt]

But, there is NO legal penalty for journalism fraud (also known as journalistic fraud). The "profession" is self policing via the mechanism of hiring and firing.

The legal perimiter of journalism fraud are found in defamation and copyright law.

CBS is plowing precedent-setting ground here.

[Sam Cree]

Well, remember when NBC did the story on how Chevy pickup gas tanks were dangerous, and it came out that NBC had been forced to use fireworks in their effort to show how easily they could explode?

[Cultural Jihad]

Er, 'political partisan.'

[AMDG&BVMH]

"When we say we continue to report the story you can be sure we're being conscientious in responding to these allegations," says CBS News President Andrew Heyward.

= we continue to report the story . . . being conscientious in repeating the allegations [against Bush]

"CBS may offer further evidence in support of its story as early as today. "

hmmmmm

[Semi Civil Servant]

The stakes are high for "60 Minutes," the undisputed gold standard in television news.... Its longtime producer, Don Hewitt, 81, has retired unenthusiastically, and its correspondents are aging. Mike Wallace is 86; Morley Safer is 72. Mr. Rather, who himself is 72, is lead correspondent for the "60 Minutes" Wednesday edition.

Wait a second. Isn't the Killian secretary "Mrs. Knox" 86? Could it be that the "source" is Mike Wallace in drag?

[TruthWillWin]

Could damage.....?

The sad thing is that they had any credibility in the first place.

[KellyAdmirer]

"I'm confident in the process of vetting that got the story on air.

Well, nobody else is. Perhaps some new blood is needed at CBS News, starting at the top. If so, it sounds like it would be the first new blood there since about 1970 - which perhaps not-so-coincidentally is when Kerry started making his name.