... and FR played a prominent role in exposing CBS's lies.
Buckhead!
It was the beginning of the end of Dan Rather on the national big stage.
But he was succeeded by Lyan Williams eventually. So I guess there’s no end to the stuff we have to deal with.
Smells like election interference. When is Dan’s court date?
What was the journalist scandal when it was discovered that 100s of them were sharing/cooperating and sometimes conniving with private email communications?
I remember. I was a lurker at the time, but I remember how members here showed off their investigative prowess in proving that CBS and Dan Rather lied.
It was very impressive.
They not only lie, they do so in many deceptive forms that the average American fails to see and os influenced by.
Omission of facts
Lack of full disclosure
Failure to give opposing narratives equal unedited air time
Use of got you phrases to lable things, (the accused),
The much abused paralipsis, deferring us to the mind set of what they want whether it is what they say the accepted is our an expert groups plurality comes up with.
And the drum beat of perpetual FAKE news.
I personally don’t watch (subject myself to it) fake news, but if I did I would watch OAN.
OAN was dropped by delect TV then I summarily drop kicked them and all satellite tv out of my house.
The red pill is out there, talk is really being stifled.
Good Sunday to you all.
Fake but accurate.
It was a Freeper who first noticed that the numeral designation of George Bush’s unit didn’t look right.
The the “137th” or which ever number it was had a “superscript ‘th’” ... meaning the the was half way up the 137 and not “on-line.”
Superscripts came with MicroSoft Word in the mid-’90s?
HOORAY Buckhead!
Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask, by whom has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Citizen journalist BUMP!
I remember reading that Buckhead post and thinking ‘This has the Ring Of Truth’.
If only Dan had known Bush was actually a Democrat, he wouldn’t have had to bother with all this.
Describes the propaganda media.
A forged document implies the existence of a real original document. The document produced by Rather and CBS was fabricated! There was no original!
During a tour of the FBI headquarters in D.C. in the early 60’s, I remember the agent telling us the FBI has every typewriter and font ever made so they could trace any typewritten document to its source. CBS never produced the original typewritten document!
As pointed out here, it was a FREEPER showed that the document was produced on a Word type document.
Fabricated!! not forged.
I think of a couple of things concerning Rathergate. Firstly, I remember reading in Bernard Goldberg’s book Bias (in my personal library) about The Dan. There was a “vice president in charge of Dan Rather” who made sure everything to do with Rather’s appearances to his specially tailored suits were perfect and up to Dan’s exacting standards. No one was to ever question The Dan and Goldberg got to see The Dan’s bullying up close and personal when he, Goldberg, first came out an op-ed discussing concerns about alleged liberal bias in so called mainstream news media outlet reporting.
Also that I read a feature in National Review (when I subscribed) at the time in which it discussed the efforts of someone in Texas who long worked against the media and it’s falsehoods about Vietnam and veterans and the attention he brought to the Docugate scandal was his crowning touch. This person first started this work in 1975 when he saw a Dallas news outlet, when reporting an armed robbery, stated that a Vietnam veteran was the perpetrator. The truth was that the perp had only been in Army basic training in about 1972 and left shortly afterwards and thus saw no action at all, let alone be in Vietnam.
What’s most important to remember is that Rathergate would never have happened without an unfettered internet for political commentary (most particularly FR at that time), which is now under attack throughout the world, from the shutdown of X in Brazil, to rumblings of political censorship of “wrong think” in Britain, Canada and the EU.
...and failed to faithfully expose the origin of the documents. All that mattered was the result.
And look what we got...
I'd trade horseface for zero in a heartbeat.
I followed that thread that night, and it was unbelievably exciting watching the truth come out in real time. Here’s another small indication of the spirit of that thread, in another comment from “Buckhead”:
“To: TheGeezer
“Well, thanks, but it’s premature. It’s not 100% conclusive because the IBM Executive and IBM Selectric Composer would do proportional fonts. The Composer was almost certainly not used in this case - it was for typesetting for camera ready and was a monumental pain in the rear to use. The Executive is possible, but still not very likely, but that doesn’t resolve the other circumstances indicating forgery. As this gets sifted through the day we will eventually come to find out the truth. There’s thousands of people working on it now. It’s pretty cool how its unfolded.
“70 posted on 9/9/2004, 1:29:20 PM by Buckhead”
The salient point here: note the contrast between the MSM, then as now (and even more so now) focusing on pushing an agenda, and “thousands” of free-lance nobodies on their laptops focusing on pursuing something the MSM had abandoned: *The Truth*. Even Buckhead himself was considering factors that might contradict his original hypothesis, while innumerable other posters were busily digging deeper into the whole matter.
It’s all tempered by the fact, that as a result we got stuck with Dumbya for eight years.