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September 10, 2004
Definitely CBS Forgeries
Dan Rather is defending the forged documents (by now, I think there's no doubt), claiming they are entirely authentic. Given how easy it is to reproduce the documents, using default Word settings, I just don't see how they can defend them.
And now Little Green Footballs points out that the documents are auto-centered and apparently word wrap identically with Word.
Media credibility has been at new lows... this is going to be DEVASTATING (to quote Andrew Sullivan) to CBS and Dan Rather. The other networks have been willing to report this too, I think partially because they don't want to look guilty too, and perhaps partially out of the sheer satisfaction of driving another nail in the CBS coffin. But given that debunking the documents helps Bush (and might hurt Kerry), they're not to eager. There's also that little matter of the forgeries being discovered on the internet... you know, where the "standards of journalism" don't have to be met.
Whatever.
Update: Tonight, CBS News will reportedly defend itself against charges that the documents alleged to be created in the early 1970s are not forged, claiming that typewriters could create the superscript th that some have pointed to as proof.
Is it too late, or will the general public not notice? I think, given Rather's response, there is clear bias. I mean, basically he's unable to say "let me look at this, as a OBJECTIVE journalist." It's as if the "objective journalism" of Oliphant has infected the entire media, leaving only the "new media" of the internet to actually research and report real facts. The networks and print media are all left to just report what they WISH the facts were.
The latest theory is that these documents came from the Kerry campaign, but even Bush supporters admit that they MAY have come from the BUSH campaign, who passed them along to the Kerry campaign, who passed them along to CBS, making Kerry and CBS look like fools. Well, hey, I mean, these are people that claim Bush should have known there weren't WMD in Iraq, so they ought to have been able to tell they were forged in Microsoft Word, right?
Now the question comes: will CBS apologize, backpedal, and start playing nice with the Bush campaign, in an effort to revive a shred of credibility. Or, defeated and outed, will they play hardball and fire back. I'm sure there's got to be something juicy on Bush.
The really sad thing for CBS and Rather, is that these documents were pretty much toothless. Even if they were true, who cares? Surely not undecided voters. These guys took a big risk (and lost) with virtually no payoff, even if the documents were real.
Update 2: Check this out.
Posted by March at September 10, 2004 11:19 AM
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