Tuesday, January 11, 2005
If you care
Posted by:
Hammer / 9:47 AM
CJR's Campaign Desk has a thoughtful criticique of the CBS report on the TANG document fiasco:
Worse yet, the September 10 segment in effect defending Mapes and Rather was produced by Mapes and narrated by Rather, with input from two other "60 Minutes Wednesday" producers -- leaving the fox in charge of the reportorial hen house.
On Saturday, September 11, the network again aired a brief report on its evening broadcast affirming that "The documents were authenticated for CBS News by outside experts" -- which just wasn't true.
It appears that the producers of the story compounded the initial error with a series of worse decisions.