What is the frequency, Kenneth?
Posted on 09/13/2004 8:08:26 PM PDT by quidnunc
Four little-known online commentators — known as Web-loggers, or bloggers for short— were instrumental in landing a blow to CBS News with their reports that documents involving President Bush’s Air National Guard service may have been faked.
The four — John Hinderaker, William Ardolino, Charles Johnson and the pseudonymous “Allah” — led an interconnected real-time investigation into the authenticity of four documents that CBS, in its “60 Minutes II” broadcast last Wednesday, said proved that Mr. Bush applied pressure to get out of his Air National Guard service in August 1973.
Starting Thursday morning, the four bloggers — simultaneously doing original reporting and investigative work — created enough skepticism over CBS’s reporting that the network was forced to dedicate the opening segment of last Friday’s “CBS Evening News with Dan Rather” to defending itself.
The allegation leveled by the four bloggers is that the documents CBS used are sloppy and politically motivated forgeries. They base their claims on assertions that the documents contain spacing and typographical constructions that were impossible to make using electric typewriters available in 1973.
CBS News, which did not return a telephone call from the Sun, has said it stands by its report. During last Friday’s “CBS Evening News with Dan Rather” broadcast, Mr. Rather defended CBS News’ use of the documents, asserting “Definitive proof has not come out to refute them.”
The New York Sun interviewed three of the four bloggers — Charles Johnson did not return repeated e-mailed requests seeking comment — and was able to create a timeline of how these four nonjournalists created an ongoing dilemma for one of the largest and most established journalistic organizations in America.
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Congratulations on a job well done. We're all so very proud of you.
Another masterpiece.
What is the frequency, Kenneth?
Those people are twisted beyond belief. I have never actually read that site before. It made me ill.
Buckhead, sorry to have 'called you' like that...I don't blame you for laying low.
Fellow FReepers...we need to keep the pressure on! Recognition of this fraud has now been acknowledged by the majority of the MSM, including Washington Post, LA Times, etc. We can continue to discredit all of them. This is a unique opportunity, and only the tip of the iceberg.
Thank you for the wonderful sentiments. I really appreciate 'em. More than you know.
bump for later
I LOVE THAT!!!!
Thank you. Do you want on my ping list? I only ping my original material like this.
Chris
I would love to be!
You're officially on it then.
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