09.18.04
What do other journalists think of CBS’s sloppy and overzealous attempt to bring George Bush down a peg or two? I’ll update this post throughout the day with their views, as well as new information from other bloggers.
Ryan Pitts, a journalist, offers his comment.
Semi-related: Is there a Kerry cover-up going on? JustOneMinute has the latest.
Power Line has information on newly-released memos from the Department of Defense re: Bush’s Guard service.
Did the Kerry campaign have something to do with forged memos? See Blogs for Bush.
More good stuff from Corante.
4 Comments
I take it that since you’re posting today that you’re okay. Whew! We saw on the news late last night that 27 tornadoes were spotted in the DC area. I’m glad you’re okay.
Comment by Kiki B. — 09.18.04 @ 3:40 pm
Thanks, Kiki! We got a lot of wind, a little rain. The damage was mostly in the Virginia area.
Comment by La Shawn — 09.18.04 @ 4:17 pm
What is amazing is the producer Mary Mapes spent some four years working on this story only to have to base it on fraudulent memos. Four years on a story and not interviewing Gen. Staudt shows not just journalistic laziness but wanting to produce an attack piece at all costs. Damn the torpedoes and integrity.
Alarm bells should have sounded from the suspected source of these memos and yet they called him an unimpeachable source.
This is a great story for pundits but a miserable day for journalism only fit for moveon.org shrills.
Four years working on a story that even if true was no earth-shattering story.
Comment by Jeff Miller — 09.18.04 @ 5:22 pm
Read Mark Steyn’s always devastating comments in Sunday’s Chicago Sun-Times. Baldilocks has a link.
Comment by Kevin — 09.19.04 @ 12:55 am