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CBS News Fights to Restore Credibility
ABC News ^
| Sept. 16, 2004
| AP
Posted on 09/16/2004 2:49:01 PM PDT by NewMediaFan
NEW YORK Sept. 16, 2004 CBS News is trying to restore its credibility after a week of questions about its report on President Bush's National Guard service yet it may never conclusively know whether it was duped by fake documents.
The news division has acknowledged for the first time questions about the authenticity of documents used to support the story, and it has promised a stepped-up effort to get at the truth.
"They could have saved themselves a good deal of negative publicity and attacks if they had said that from the beginning," said Charlotte Grimes, a Syracuse University professor with a specialty in political reporting.
Internet watchdogs were the first to raise questions about last week's report, and CBS anchor Dan Rather's critics have been buzzing ever since.
An editorial cartoon in the Birmingham News pictured a dour-looking Rather saying on camera, "There is not an anti-Bush media bias. And here's a memo to prove it."
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mediabias; rathergate
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To: NewMediaFan
"An editorial cartoon in the Birmingham News pictured a dour-looking Rather saying on camera, "There is not an anti-Bush media bias. And here's a memo to prove it."
LOL! Say Goodnight, Capt Dan!
You or your bias will not be missed.
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posted on
09/16/2004 3:15:29 PM PDT
by
Inge_CAV
To: ambrose
Chant with me now:
CAN DAN, CAN DAN, CAN DAN....
To: CWOJackson
"CBS News Fights to Restore Credibility"
The Titanic is unsinkable.
Donner party upbeat after successful Sierra crossing.
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posted on
09/16/2004 3:20:30 PM PDT
by
keat
To: NewMediaFan
IMHO, there's a reasonable chance that little will come of this other than perhaps some dip in Rather's ratings. The strategy of CBS and the DNC is to label all who disagree with Rather on the documents as partisans. Most of the media will say they're probably fake but short of a grand jury investigation, which won't happen in the near future, the status of the documents will remain as probably, but not definitively, fake - essentially a stalemate.
Thus, the question about Bush will remain somewhat, if not all the way, open, which was probably the CBS/DNC objective all along. As others have said, it provides some inoculation against further SBVFT adds. The best way to overcome this question is to tie the forgeries to Kerry and a most conclusive manner.
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posted on
09/16/2004 3:26:50 PM PDT
by
pt17
To: ambrose
That's gonna leave a mark!
45
posted on
09/16/2004 3:41:33 PM PDT
by
CT
(Oppose Left Wing Anti-American 'Hatriotsim)
To: NewMediaFan
To: PJ-Comix
Witness the focus on the authenticity of paper and ink, rather than the information contained.All DUers have sex with goats.
What's that? How do you know it's not true? Because you read it on FR? Witness the focus on where it was posted, rather than the information it contains!
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posted on
09/16/2004 3:53:29 PM PDT
by
Dont Mention the War
(Calvinism Fever: Catch It! (Or don't. It's not like it's going to do you any good anyway...))
To: Lancey Howard
All Rathergate means to CBS is that they must be more careful to find better forgeries. This has a horrible ring of truth to it.
To: muir_redwoods
CAN DAN, CAN DAN, CAN DAN....
As a Marine I think SH!T CAN DAN, SH!T CAN DAN, SH!T CAN DAN, SH!T CAN DAN, .................would be appropriate.
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posted on
09/16/2004 4:19:03 PM PDT
by
S.O.S121.500
(We have no Gestapo here....them "donut dunkers" can't even understand German.)
To: NewMediaFan
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posted on
09/16/2004 4:20:48 PM PDT
by
shield
(The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
To: NewMediaFan
As they say in Dan's home state, may as well call in the dogs and piss on the fire, this hunt's over.
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posted on
09/16/2004 4:22:58 PM PDT
by
IamConservative
(A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.)
To: Bertha Fanation
CBS News: They Distort, WE DERIDE!
I can't wait for the article: Associated Press Fights to Restore Credibility
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posted on
09/16/2004 4:31:55 PM PDT
by
GeorgiaYankee
(CBS NEWS: FAKE, BUT ACCURATE!)
To: NewMediaFan
What Rather did is beyond outrageous. And it just doesn't make sense. Is Rather mentally ill?
If you are going to forge documents, why not about an issue that matters. Why about some long ago non-issue?
Even if the charges were true, Bush has a far better military record than Clinton who has none. Voters don't care about those old NG charges.
53
posted on
09/16/2004 4:40:01 PM PDT
by
Dante3
To: NewMediaFan
CBS: Fast, Accurate, Cheap
Pick two.
54
posted on
09/16/2004 4:41:04 PM PDT
by
ShandaLear
(Rather lied, CBS News died.)
To: Billthedrill
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posted on
09/16/2004 4:44:41 PM PDT
by
southland
(Dan rather cost kerry the election!!!)
To: NewMediaFan
CBS won't make any headway until they figure out exactly who or what it is they are fighting.
56
posted on
09/16/2004 5:03:27 PM PDT
by
dr_who_2
To: keat
CBS continues to prove their objectivity and impartiality by publishing the story linked below, which reads like a press release from the DNC. No critical or non-Democratic sources are quoted, not even a token or two! The CBS 'reporter' has simply written up the latest DNC talking points as a so-called "news article:"
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/16/politics/main643960.shtml
So, we are to believe (according to CBS) that everything is hunky-dory with the Kerry campaign -- talk about drinking the kool-aid right from the source.
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posted on
09/16/2004 5:15:48 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(Jayson Blair left the NY Times and works for Dan Rather at CBS!)
To: NewMediaFan
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posted on
09/16/2004 5:18:55 PM PDT
by
bootyist-monk
(<--------------------- Republican Attack Machine)
To: Tweaker
you need to send that one to dan himself...LOL
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posted on
09/16/2004 5:31:11 PM PDT
by
tioga
To: happydogdesign
Wonderful! Wonderful! Your original? Or?
I foresee a long trip around the Net for this cover!
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posted on
09/16/2004 5:44:25 PM PDT
by
Veto!
(Kerry wears a tutu, TeRAYza wears the pants)
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