What's scary is that 10 or 15 years ago, CBS would've gotten away with it. Before the advent of the internet, talk radio and 24 hour news channels, the Big 3 (ABC, NBC, CBS) controlled, for better or worse, the content of news that was broadcast to the public.
On the newspaper side, the New York Times, Boston Globe and L.A. Times had the same sort of oligarchistic power. After all, who would've been there to challenge their suppositions?
What is even scarier is that if they had the good sense to use a typewriter for their forgery, they would have gotten away with it THIS time.
What's scary is that 10 or 15 years ago, CBS would've gotten away with it. Before the advent of the internet, talk radio and 24 hour news channels, the Big 3 (ABC, NBC, CBS) controlled, for better or worse, the content of news that was broadcast to the public.
The natural question then becomes, WHAT ELSE DID THEY FOIST
OFF ON US?