Heh...no news organization is infallible. The "fair and balanced"
network doesn't even really attempt to provide factual and accurate
information. I worked in television news and print news at different
times in my career and all news outlets have to run corrections. Your
fact-checking standards may require three verifications or even five,
but despite that you'll run something occasionally that will turn out
to be factually inaccurate and you'll have to run a correction.
What's notable about this CBS story isn't that someone fed them a
forged document and they had to run a correction. What's notable is
that the backlash from the right-wing media was so extreme that it
killed all inquiry into whether Bush had actually been AWOL.
On Jun 24, 2005, at 6:53 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> 60 Minutes? CBS? Isn't that the outfit that used forged documents
> to try to
> impact a recent federal election in the U.S.? Yeah, I'd believe
> almost
> anything I heard on 60 Minutes. They're the most ruthlessly fair and
> balanced news outfit going. Except maybe for Newswe(a)k.
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