[TomGuy]

Oh, that is funny. We need to get that page translated:


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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.

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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.

[Eurotwit]

Å, det var morsomt. Vi må få den siden oversatt:


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Caught redhanded lying by bloggers

Quits: Dan Rather quits from CBS after bloggers caught him lying. He (Rather) claim his resignation is not related.

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Ninteen minutes after the broadcast TankerKC writes in the weblogg 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?

That message caught the attention of others. Four hours later Buckhead replies in the same weblogg:

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.

The next day, a pretty much exact reproduction of the document (the forgery) was published on the Little Green Footballs website, made by 'Power Line'. The spacing, the typeset, the placement of the dateline, everything from the forged documents was matched exactly in the document that bloggers had produced in (MS)Word. Several others made believable comparisons between the memos and documents that they produced themselves.

48 posted den 03/04/2005 11:27:40 AM EST by TomKar (Amerika: Beste venn eller verste fiende. Velg med omhu.)

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There you are :-) The article is fairly straight forward. I am sorry to tell you that Slutter just means quits.

Cheers.

[TomKar]

Å, det var morsomt. Vi må få den siden oversatt:


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Caught redhanded lying by bloggers

Quits: Dan Rather quits from CBS after bloggers caught him lying. He (Rather) claim his resignation is not related.

Advertisement

Ninteen minutes after the broadcast TankerKC writes in the weblogg 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?

That message caught the attention of others. Four hours later Buckhead replies in the same weblogg:

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.

The next day, a pretty much exact reproduction of the document (the forgery) was published on the Little Green Footballs website, made by 'Power Line'. The spacing, the typeset, the placement of the dateline, everything from the forged documents was matched exactly in the document that bloggers had produced in (MS)Word. Several others made believable comparisons between the memos and documents that they produced themselves.