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Tatt i løgn av bloggere
SLUTTER: Dan Rather slutter i CBS like etter at bloggere tok han i løgn. Selv sier han det ikke har noen sammenheng.
Nitten minutter etter sendingen skriver TankerKC på webloggen FreeRepublic:
WE NEED TO SEE THOSE MEMOS AGAIN! They are not in the style that we used when I came in to the USAF. They looked like the style and format we started using about 12 years ago (1992). Our signature blocks were left justified, now they are rigth of center...like the ones they just showed. Can we get a copy of those memos?
Meldingen fikk flere til å fatte interesse for saken. Fire timer senere svarer Buckhead i den samme webloggen:
Howlin, every single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman. In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts. The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90's. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn't used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80's used monospaced fonts. I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old. This should be pursued aggressively.
Dagen etter dukket det opp en tilnærmet eksakt reproduksjon av dokumentet på nettstedet Little Green Footballs laget av 'Power Line'. Orddelingen, mellomrommene mellom ordene og bokstavene, linjeskiftene. Plasseringen av datolinjen. Alt passet perfekt sammen med det bloggeren hadde reprodusert i Word. Flere andre lagde overbevisende sammenlikninger mellom memoene og egenproduserte dokumenter.