Free Republic

  Document distraction Alleged forgery drama has cost CBS some credibility, and has postponed - again - focus on today's issues Friday, September 17, 2004 CBS News, in the person of anchorman Dan Rather, has staked its professional reputation on the authenticity of over-the-transom documents purporting to show that, 32 years ago, the man who would become president of the United States had shirked his military duty. Shaky ground on which to place something so important. Such sourcing is always risky for a news organization. But when the object of the reporting occupies the White House, the consequences of...