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« BULLSH*T (UPDATED with Protein Wisdom) | Main | Blast from the Past » September 22, 2004
This Looks Good
Posted by Bill Over at Drudge: The Honorable Dick Thornburgh, former governor of Pennsylvania and United States attorney general under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and Louis D. Boccardi, retired president and chief executive officer of the Associated Press, will comprise the independent review panel that will examine the process by which a recent 60 MINUTES Wednesday report was prepared and broadcast. They might want to start sifting through blogs for investigative leads. UPDATE: Ernest Miller's thorough after-action report is a good place to start: Incompetent AND Unethical: The Story of CBS News' Response to Criticism of the Killian Memo Forgeries That is an impressive body of work. UPDATE: Even better: "Some people broke the cardinal rule and screwed us all," one "60 Minutes" veteran said Tuesday. UPDATE: Maybe not so good. Posted by Bill at September 22, 2004 01:03 PM | TrackBack (1) CommentsCBS says: “the independent review panel that will examine the process by which a recent 60 MINUTES Wednesday report was prepared and broadcast.” Three problems. First, by what measures is a review panel commissioned by CBS “independent?” Second, 50% of the panel’s voting stock is held by an Old Media industry insider. Nothing goes in the report unless he agrees. Third, if they are chartered to “examine the process”, is it possible that they can do no more than return to declare “We’ve found the culprit – it’s the Process.”? Posted by: Lastango at September 22, 2004 01:30 PM Not so good. CBS News only wants to investigate what happened up to the broadcast, not their shameful behavior after the broadcast: http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/015759.php Thanks for the links! Posted by: Ernest Miller at September 22, 2004 02:35 PM Aye Bill: Posted by: Diddy at September 22, 2004 02:46 PM Hmm. Which cardinal rule might that be? "Don't get caught"? If the media is generally on the up and up and is practicing good journalism ethics "all" of them won't be "screwed" as MSM comes under scrutiny as a result of this. Posted by: willow at September 22, 2004 03:55 PM I think that part of the process by which it was broadcast was a process which included repeating and re-broadcasting the same known lies every day over the next two weeks. And what they did thereafter is certainly relevant to what led up to the original broadcast. It's damning proof that they knew they were running a hatchet-job and had to protect the identity of their phony "unimpeachable" source at all costs by pretending, in the face of all evidence, that they thought the documents were authentic. Posted by: The Raving Atheist at September 22, 2004 04:38 PM Louis Boccardi is an old friend of Rather. This is NOT a good thing, it is nothing more than a public show of a faked attitude of contrition. I am not surprised. Posted by: Jim at September 22, 2004 06:37 PM |
