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Journalism Fraud Update: Sept. 20/04

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Watching CBS handle the Rathergate scandal is like watching the Toronto Blue Jays play baseball - you keep rubbing your eyes and telling yourself that the real professionals will show up soon. In both cases, it seems, we're destined to end up disappointed this year.

Here are the most powerful pieces and key developments since Friday:

  • The latest retraction or refutation from CBS' "supporting" experts and claimed protagonists: how about General Staudt, whose influence was supposedly responsible for the memos (except that he had already left the Guard when they were "written")?
  • A Congressional investiation? I agree with these folks. Dumb idea.
  • Meanwhile, a talk radio host at a CBS affiliate in Seattle was apparently fired for criticizing CBS and suggesting that Rather should resign.
  • Kevin Drum is upset that so many of us are spending so much time on Rathergate. I guess he'd like us to stop. Short answer, Kevin: No. But your post's lack of clue was pretty funny, so thanks for that.
  • INDCJournal, who played a big role in this scandal, notes that blogs are a complement for the MSM, not a replacement for it. He also warns bloggers not to get too cocky. Some long knives are being sharpened now that blogs have shown themselves to be serious players.

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Tracked: September 20, 2004 5:42 PM
Time to CBS (Cut the BS) from infidel cowboy
Excerpt: CBS is preparing to let us in on a poorly kept secret of theirs - turns out those memos Dan Rather used in his 60 Minutes II hit piece may have been forged! Who knew?!? The question now is how...

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Its about to get more surreal. Rather is about to trot out Bill Burkett who apparently fed (if not created) the fakes. I am willing to bet big money that 90% of the interview will be about how Burkett agrees with the charges of the fake documents he gave CBS. Think about that. CBS gets totally duped and they are going to give a microphone to the guy that played a big hand in the duping. They are treating these forgeries like some innocuous peice of evidence that just happened to turn out wrong, instead of a deliberate attempt to fool the country and influence the election. The rabbit hole is about to get a lot deeper, stay tuned.

Sorry about the Bluejays, Joe.

If it's any consolation, the Yankees have been less consistent than I'd like this year too. I mean, come on - losing by over 20 points???? So far we're beating off the Red Sox, though. Whew.

Yep - didn't have time over the weekend to put something together, but in this case, Keven Drum responded to this, and there was a post on Tacitus.

I would think that the New Republic (who was the source for this) would have checked this out first, but not checking sources seems to be going around, doesn't it?

Okay I just heard and watched the words come out of Dan Rather’s mouth.

“He did not come to us. We went to him and requested the documents.”

He being Mr. Burkett and we being CBS.

Burkett claims he was protecting his source and he was pressured by CBS to give a source. Dan says yep we pressured you because it was an important point for CBS.

Mr. Burkett also claims he told CBS to authenticate the documents and he laid no claims to the documents authenticity.

Now my questions are:
1) How could CBS air the story without authenticating the documents if what Mr. Burkett claims he told CBS is true. Mr. Burkett says he just threw out a name. The problem with this is what ever name he threw out it certainly must have been powerful enough for CBS not to authenticate it. Who could be perceived to be beyond such reproach?

2) How did CBS come to know that Mr. Burkett had said documents? Documents so powerful that they would warrant a story on prime time news concerning the president and his service in the Air National Guard.

This only gets worse.

P.S. Sorry about your baseball team Joe. After inconsequential reprisals concerning Roberto Alomar spitting on the umpire. I stopped watching.

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