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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (526129)11/4/2009 10:15:00 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (3) of 1574854
 
"No, but I'm reasonably certain the "reporter" isn't the same person who read the teleprompter on the air."

What is this supposes to mean?

"If a writer made a mistake, fine. But let's not blow it out of proportion."

It isn't a mistake when someone totally fabricates something. Getting a wrong word or getting one fact confused with another is a mistake. Fabricating a conversation doesn't fall under the heading of 'a mistake'.

"As to Dan Rather, I don't remember the details but I seem to recall he reported as true conclusions that were based on falsified documents, something along those lines."

There were not proven to be falsified. They could not be proven to be authentic, which is a totally different thing. The fact is the secretary of the TANG unit where Smirk served has stated that she typed up documents with similar information during that time period. But those weren't the documents she typed. If for no other reason, the language in the documents was inconsistent with what was current at the time. So the documents might have been faked, but the information was not false. Almost like someone who wasn't familiar with the unit and was familiar with the information and then reconstructed it from memory.

But that wasn't Dan's fault. Dan's culpability was in not ensuring the validity of the documents and/pr relying on subordinates who didn't.
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