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September 21, 2004
| Newspapers React to Rather's Apology

From Editor and Publisher, a roundup of reactions:

In an editorial prepared for its Tuesday edition, the Seattle Post-Intelligence declared: “In the flap over the 35-year-old military records of George W. Bush and John Kerry, it seems poetic justice that discredit has fallen on those who would discredit them. First it was the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Now it’s the Columbia Broadcasting System. That second violation of public trust is by far the more damaging.”

[link via Roxanne]

Read the rest here.



Posted by Michele at September 21, 2004 10:05 AM | TrackBack
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ok, let’s not lose focus, this is a story that CBS says they have been working on for years. They FELT it was true and used forged documents (despite the warnings of document experts) to prove it.
Let me repeat, they used FORGED documents to buttress a story that was built from nothing else but animus and hearsay.

Posted by: billhedrick [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 21, 2004 01:06 PM

What I find more annoying is the constant equating of the Swift Vets and CBS. CBS used forged documents and expert shopping to fool the nation, while the Swift Vets have a solid case and have even forced Kerry to change his story on two occasions. Equating the two is the same disingenuous behavior that got CBS in trouble in the first place.

Posted by: Brian [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 21, 2004 02:20 PM

Brian: “Equating the two is the same disingenuous behavior that got CBS in trouble in the first place.”

It’s more of the Wizard of Oz “ignore the man behind the curtain” tactic. Notice also how many “news” organizations, despite the “admission”, still harp on the mythical “lost year”.

I just want someone to explain how eye-witnesses that drilled with Bush, point capture that indicates satisfactory drill participation and pay records that record full credit for training periods somehow constitute a “lost year” by ay objective analysis.

Posted by: submandave [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 21, 2004 02:29 PM

Boo Hoo! I’m crying buckets of crocodile tears over Rathergate and the lamenting of the Legacy American Media Esblishment AKA MSM or whatever (Hat tip to CERDIP here).

There is an excellent piece over on Windsofchange.net by Tim Oren

Here

on the coming demise of the L.A.M.E. This is due to how they are paid (transaction cost economics).

I concured with a humble comment that this transformation is indeed taking place - the emergence of a new medium of exchange of information - The Blogosphere. Information is free to transcend political boundaries and constraints and biases of media editorial and corporate boardrooms.

Ron Wright, Moderator
HSPIG Forums Site
www.hspig.org

Posted by: Ron Wrght [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 21, 2004 09:22 PM

The SwiftVets forged documents??? BWAAAAAHHHAAHAHA. Yup. They sure did. They’re the ones that said Kerry spent Christmas of 1968 in Cambodia, right?

Yup. I thought so.

Posted by: Cap'n DOC [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 22, 2004 07:22 AM

What about the new documents I just printed, er found, that say Dan Rather used to eat his boogers, owes on some back lunch money from kindergarten and likes sex with barnyard animals. I can’t validate them, but shouldn’t he address the charges? What has he got to hide? His 94 year old teacher says she doesn’t think they are real, but she is pretty sure she heard someone say something like that back in ‘42.

C’mon, Dan, answer the charges. Isn’t that the way you are treating Dubya? Moron

Posted by: Elvis [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 23, 2004 12:57 AM

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