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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (201575)9/12/2004 6:24:39 AM
From: Yousef   of 1574170
 
TheJerk,

Re: "The Hoaxing of CBS"

The Hoaxing of CBS

"Here's a revealing anecdote reported by Michael Dobbs and Mike Allen in this
morning's Washington Post:

A senior CBS official . . . named one of the network's sources as retired
Maj. Gen. Bobby W. Hodges, the immediate superior of the documents' alleged
author, Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian. He said that a CBS reporter read the
documents to Hodges over the phone, and that Hodges replied that "these are the
things that Killian had expressed to me at the time."

"These documents represent what Killian not only was putting in memoranda,
but was telling other people," the CBS News official said. "Journalistically,
we've gone several extra miles."

Obviously, you can't authenticate a document by reading it to someone over the phone.
(CBS claims to have had other "experts" examine the documents but has been
unwilling to name them.) What this reporting should have suggested to CBS is
that whoever forged the documents was someone who knew what CBS's sources would
be saying--someone well informed on the anti-Bush scuttlebutt about his
National Guard service. The "documents" neatly reflect the reigning anti-Bush
theories of the events of 1972 and 1973 and perfectly buttress the anti-Bush
narrative because they were produced by someone who was obsessing over that
narrative and understood that reporters would need "documentation" to advance the story.

Make It So,
Yousef
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