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During colonial times in America, if you wanted to convince or inform people about some issue that you considered important, you went to the local printer and got some pamphlets printed. You then handed them out, read them to anybody that was interested, nailed them to the town bulletin board, or the nearest tree.
The first amendment was specifically written to protect this type of activity and the writers or "pamphleteers".
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Monday, September 20, 2004
RATHERBIASED.COM UPDATE September 20, 2004 ========== WHAT'S NEW ========== <http://ratherbiased.com/news/> Digest: 1) We have the video of Dan criticizing Fox News up on the news page now. Check it out if you haven't seen it 2) CBS tells NYT that its documents are fake 3) Our list of "Twenty Things CBS Won't Apologize For NYT: CBS Says Papers Were Forged <http://ratherbiased.com/news/> --Jim Rutenberg, a media reporter with the New York Times has a blockbuster story in today's editions: CBS has concluded that it used forged documents in a story accusing President Bush of evading his duties in the Texas Air National Guard. Of course, had the folks at CBS been reading FreeRepublic.com, INDCJournal, Little Green Footballs, RatherBiased.com, Hugh Hewitt, Powerline, AllahPundit, InstaPundit, and CNS News, they could have saved themselves a whole lot of embarrassment. In retrospect, it really is quite farcical that Dan Rather's hand-picked CBS News management persisted for so long against the facts, especially considering that it condemns politicians when they do the exact same thing. Twenty Things CBS Won't Apologize For <http://ratherbiased.com/news/> --More than likely, any CBS "apology" is going to be very tempered and likely reiterate previous network statements that "no one has challenged the content of our report." This is flatly false. A number of people have criticized CBS's reporting including the White House, President Bush's father, the Killian family, Ben Barnes's daughter Amy Barnes Stites, as well as several of Bush's former associates including Col. Walter Staudt, Col. Bobby Hodges, as well as Bush's roommate Dean Roome. These Bush for years. We hope, but are not expecting, that the network will also apologize for the following: 1. Failing to use the best document experts it could find, 2. Hiring a signature expert to look at a copied document when he himself said earlier that doing such a thing was foolish, 3. Ignoring and lying about the testimony of those it did hire, 4. Failing to interview Marian Knox as well as the others listed above, 5. Not interviewing anyone directly connected with Lt. Col Killian, 6. Not informing viewers that Staudt had retired a year-and-a-half before the time he was supposedly trying to help "sugarcoat" Bush's record, 7. Failing to inform viewers that not a single verified document signed by Killian or his fellow officers during the time period used the typographical techniques used in the CBS Memos, 8. Not mentioning Ben Barnes's partisan background enough, 9. Not disclosing the 30-year friendship of the two Texas Democrats Barnes and Rather, 10. Failing to even know who producer Mary Mapes's document source was before the broadcast, 11. Dishonestly impugning the motives of critics, 12. Using its news broadcasts to defend a bad report instead of examining how it could be wrong, 13. Never once featuring a single document expert on the air who doubted CBS's claims, 14. Putting total non-experts on the air to spin the preferred "authentic" line even though CBS would not allow them to see its documents, 15. Not mentioning that Killian never kept notes and hated to type, 16. Failing to provide the public with copies of the documents as close as possible to the ones CBS obtained, 17. Not finding out if the office in which Killian worked even had a typewriter capable of duplicating most of the complex formatting used in the CBS documents (it did not), 18. Using the testimony of a vehemently anti-Bush author to prove its case and simply referring to him as an author who "wrote two books on the subject," 19. Failing to inform viewers that its document source was someone who hated George Bush, 20. Not telling viewers that one of its key (if not the key) sources was a man known to be mentally unstable and one who has lodged false accusations against Bush for years. ** Go to mentioned here. ** FORWARDING: Spread the news about bias. Send this newsletter to a friend ================= SUBSCRIPTION INFO ================= RatherBiased.com Update is a free e-mail newsletter sent to our readers periodically. |