[lawdude]

That was no investigation. That was a whitewash. Paid for by CBS and conducted by their own staff. The conclusions in no way correlate to the findings which are conveniently hidden in footnotes and subtle phrases.

The facts show convincingly that the story (fable) was done as a hit piece (probably by the CBS News staff but that was not shown). The prime mover, Mary Mapes, has a five year hate going for the Bushes. She personally worked on this specific story for at least four years.

The investigators concluded there was evidence of bias or political motive. CRAP! There is more circumstantial evidence of bias and political motive than there was that Scott was involved in the disappearance of Lacy.

These "investigators should themselves be investigated. And by the feds, for assisting in the various crimimal acts committed by CBS in this whole mess.

Dan. Slink softly and quietly into the night.
Les. YOU TOO.
FCC. Shut the bastards down!

[drt1]

"Dan Rather, too, continues to believe in the authenticity of the documents on the ground, as he told the panel, that no one provided evidence the documents were not authentic."

Danny boy, even with your biased, opportunistic approach to journalism even you know that the standard is Proof of the authenticity of the documents BEFORE going to air. What a nuanced, newspeak crock! (As I've said too many times about this)

[laishly]

This was NOT an "independent" commission. Thornburgh's law firm was retained by SeeBS and had an attorney-client obligation. I'm sure that the network executives, possibly even Rather, reviewed and passed on several drafts of the report before agreeing to the final version, which left out any finding of bias or the fact that the alleged memos were forgeries.

[KMC1]

There WAS a political agenda - the report said there was none...In addition...where are the emails from Rather and Mapes on the evolution of the story. RAW materials should have been disclosed in the fine print on this report. The fact that NONE were disclosed tells me that CBS did NOT learn its lesson...

[Lancey Howard]

There will be, in our future, other stories like the one that gave birth to this drama--investigations driven by zeal, political and otherwise, devoid of proofs, reported by journalists interested only in testimony supportive of their charges.

The more important question is HOW MANY lives, reputations, and careers HAVE ALREADY been maliciously destroyed over the decades by sloppy, partisan "journalists" like Mapes and Rather and the rest of that ilk who used forgeries and lying witnesses to get a story on the air? We will never know.

[woodb01]

Yep, 'dnC'BS is slowly collapsing. And none too soon. It will be interesting to see how long they survive amid the onslaught of their competitors looking to grab some market share from them... Les Moonves and Andrew Hayward are in total denial about the longer range impacts of this mess.

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