Yesterday's Media Watch post linked to a new expert weighing in on Rathergate, who claimed that the documents look like they were typed after all. David E. Hailey, Jr., Ph.D. is Associate Professor and Director at the Interactive Media Research Laboratory at Utah State University. He looked like he had a pretty good set of credentials, and his study appeared quite extensive.
Then, he met the blogosphere. Wizbang showed that some of his "evidence" was... uh... not authentic. The University has now taken his whole site down, and is investigating.
Of course, Mary Mapes of CBS had been forwarding his study to questioning reporters....
History repeats itself: first as Tragedy, second as Farce.
-Karl Marx (who didn't get everything wrong)
If I was in CBS and Rather's shoes I'd really want to put the whole matter to rest. The closer we are to Nov 2, the more so...
pwned!