"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.
Ya think?!?
You don't say.
Yes, they could. Sort of like an asteroid the size of Antarcica could damage the earth's ecosystems.
As far as I am concerned, they lost their credibility a very long time ago.
OXYMORON ALERT!
Here is a copyright-ready cartoon for any use that's noncommercial... emails, signs, flyers, whatever
CBS? What "credibility"?
If I read something correctly yesterday it stated CBS viewers were up.
Strange world we live in or is it.
;-)
"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.
The legal perimiter of journalism fraud are found in defamation and copyright law.
CBS is plowing precedent-setting ground here.
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?
= 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
Wait a second. Isn't the Killian secretary "Mrs. Knox" 86? Could it be that the "source" is Mike Wallace in drag?
The sad thing is that they had any credibility in the first place.
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.
Beldar Blog nails it with the September 15 post. Read the whole thing.
Excerpt:
Dan Rather was complicit in defrauding the American public in an attempt to defeat a sitting President.
Rather must be fired now. Congress should subpoena CBS News' lawyers and all documentation of their advice.
But Dan Rather and CBS News had become co-conspirators by the time of their broadcast. ABC News has revealed that two of the experts whom CBS News consulted before running the broadcast — Emily Will from North Carolina and Linda James of Plano, Texas — could not and would not authenticate the fraudulent Killian memos, and expressly told CBS that.
The first witness must be an appropriate custodian of records from CBS News, who must be directed to bring every shred of paper, every email, every piece of videotape, every computer file, every outtake, every script, every memorandum of staff meetings — and every bit of advice rendered by inside or outside legal counsel to CBS News prior to the broadcast. There is no attorney-client privilege to shield advice rendered to assist a client in the perpetration of a crime or a fraud. See, e.g., Swindler & Berlin v. United States, 524 U.S. 399 (1998); United States v. Zolin, 491 U.S. 554 (1989).
They didn't want an internal investigation, so now they are going to get an external one. Bravissimo CBS.