Frankly, it is stunning that they did so LITTLE investigative work here. Appalled does not do justice to what I feel right now. Not only is CBS liberal, but it can't do basic journalism that I could easily do for the college paper I run (just checking the age of a document is too hard for them...yikes).
My word that is frightening.
It is frightening because my little old paper with real journalism only gets to 2,000 people.
CBS reaches millions and millions. And who knows how many people just accept what they say as truth.
That's what happens when you allow yourself to be blinded by a lust for power and by seething, irrational, partisan hatred. That's kind of frightening to me - their hatred for Bush is so intense that they didn't even go through the motions of authenticating what they had - they just ran with it because they were convinced it would torpedo him. That's a level of hatred close to that of the Islamofascists.
CBS reaches millions and millions. And who knows how many people just accept what they say as truth.
Hopefully this episode reduces their ranks significantly.
It shouldn't be stunning/ They think we're all stupid. The spend their lives going to the same parties, summer homes, and plays that they think the rest of us are morons. Remember the film critic Pailine Kael, a really good critic and an intelligent woman. In the aftermath of Nixon's landslide in 1972 she said she couldn't believe Nixon won. She did not know a single person who voted for him. That's the arrogance of the gang at 60 Min. They knew! They felt the only people who'd discover the hoax were people like themselves.