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Posted on 1/11/2005, 2:32:01 AM by wagglebee
NEW YORK (Reuters) - An independent report on Monday found a CBS News story about U.S. President Bush's National Guard service record was deeply flawed and came from the network's "myopic zeal" to be first with the news.
CBS said it would fire four employees for their roles in the erroneous story, broadcast on Sept. 8, 2004, and would take steps to bolster its credibility.
Following are some celebrated media scandals over inaccurate or fabricated stories.
April 1981
-- The Washington Post relinquishes a Pulitzer Prize for a story written by Janet Cooke about "Jimmy," an 8-year-old heroin addict who did not exist.
February 1993
-- NBC News admits that it attached explosive devices to a General Motors truck to show the vehicle's dangers in a fire for a November 1992 "Dateline NBC" report. NBC apologized to GM, which filed a lawsuit against the network for staging the crash.
May 1998
-- New Republic magazine fires Stephen Glass for embellishing a story on teenage computer hackers. A month later, editors apologize to readers after finding that Glass invented all or part of 27 of 41 articles he wrote for the weekly.
July 1998
-- CNN retracts its discredited "Operation Tailwind" report broadcast the month before. The report alleged U.S. use of nerve gas on deserters in Laos during the Vietnam War. The cable news network apologized to the Pentagon and fired two producers associated with the story.
May 2003
-- The New York Times national reporter Jayson Blair resigns after fabricating quotes, falsifying datelines and using material from other newspapers in dozens of articles. The Times publishes a four-page account in two articles detailing Blair's fabrications. The scandal led to the resignations of the paper's top two editors.
March 2004
-- USA Today says it found numerous examples of fabrication and plagiarism by star reporter Jack Kelley, who was forced to resign in January that year. The paper's editor resigned in the wake of the scandal.
January 2005
-- Independent panel finds that CBS News failed to authenticate the documents used to substantiate a Sept. 8, 2004, broadcast that said Bush received preferential treatment while serving in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War. CBS fires four employees. The network's anchor Dan Rather had already said he would step down on March 9.
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Great picture!
What is he, chopped liver?
-good Thames, G.J.P.(Jr.)
I only have so much room.
So neener.
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Like...whatever, dude.
:()
-good times, G.J.P.(Jr.)
If you were to create a rogue's gallery of journalistic malpractice it would stretch from Djibouti to Denmark.
You're both missing the gold medal winner. Walter Duranty, the biggest media fraud in history, he not only lied about Stalin, he covered-up for millions of murders.
http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=446194
We should all remember that these are simply the big fish who got caught. How many dozens, hundreds, or thousands of false media stories have there been over the years that sought to discredit conservative/American/capitalist ideals? How many have covered up or sugar-coated liberal/socialist/communist ones?
No, the big one they left off was Walter Duranty.
"Is it just me?"
Of COURSE it's just you....you and me and 62 million other hateful dumb Dubyamonkey Vast Right Wing Conspiracist Fundamentalist Wackos. The Ministry of Truth/MSM is Good, Bloggers Bad. (bleat with me: MSM GOOD, Bloggers BAAAAD) The Moonbats of Marx and Islam are totally objective and decent people and the only ones smart enough to know how YOU and I should live our lives. Barbara Boxer and Hillary Clinton stood up for our DEMOCRAPY against the eeeeevil GOP, we should be so proud.
/sarcasm OFF
Please excuse me while I go vomit.
A stain upon the already sordid history of the Old Gray (Hag.)
It's a direct hit against liberal media!!!
the issure of duranty shows true bias, even today when the nyt refuses to take away the pulitzer, and still stands by him.
losers.
To this day, the New York Slimes not only refuses to return Duranty's Pulitzer, they still take immense pride in his communist propoganda.
Seems to me it was about a year ago, in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal, that the Pulitzer Committee (at the Columbia School of Journalism) announced they planned to review the circumstances of the Duranty award.
The initial announcement strongly suggested what we have all known for, lo, these many years: Duranty's dispatches were full of fiction. On the surface, it looked like an open and shut case of fabricated-journalism-for-political-purposes and the Pulitizer Committee seemed likely to prise the Prize from the Times' trophy case (or Pinch's cold dead hands, whatever it took).
But, to the surprise of all (and why were we "surprised"), the Pulitzer Committee concluded that Duranty had simply been "misled" by his Stalinist handlers. And, well, hell, that could happen to anybody! Especially if you happened to admire Stalinists, as the New York Times and the Pulitzer Committee so obviously do.
At any rate, it's not a question of the Times refusing to give the Duranty award back. Instead, it's a case of the Pulitzer Committee conducting a whitewash for old Walter's pink ass and refusing to ask for its return...
You are excused, but only because you remembered the sarcasm tag.
The Pulitzer committee realized that the NYT was far too influential to target over a story from well over half a century ago. Everyone with a brain knew that Duranty's stories were Stalinist propoganda decades ago, the Pulitzer committee at the time and certainly today still cherish their Soviet "comrades."
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