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*I checked Search...this topic hasn't yet come up? I find that hard to believe.
Think the Democrats had anything to do with it? Suppose Rather will resign?
I can't believe they went with the story so strongly and quickly. The superscript "th" issue with typeset...yeah, that should have been a dead give-away. I don't recall that capability on the "elite super-typewriters" at business college in the 1980s...and those were top of the line *then.*
I thought the people in charge at CBS would have better sense.
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Well, the sad fact of the matter is that many at CBS wanted it to be true.
I can say from experience that the majority of people working in the media are left-leaning. It's not a conspiracy or anything, just that a large enough percentage thinks one way that it skews what is presented.
I don't expect that Dan Rather will resign over this, nor do I think the Democrat Party strictly speaking had a direct hand in it. Just lots of slightly off-kilter liberals getting too exciting and not checking their facts out.
It's a good kick to the credibility of CBS though.
Which brings to mind my own rule of news media, whether print or television. Almost everytime I see or hear a story about events I had either prior knowledge of or personally witnessed, they get something wrong. Sometimes it's minor, sometimes it significantly changes the perception of what happened. So if they screw it up nearly every time I can verify it, I must assume they have the same accuracy record all the time. In short, mainstream media is not a source one should cite, but rather a guide for where to start looking for more information.
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