"The source is Burkett and only an idiot or a partisan would refer to him as an unimpeachable source"
True..and no doubt one of the reasons why Rather will never admit the documents are fake..To do so would be to reveal the source (and therefore the fact that Rather is an "idiot")
Exactly, the media can apologize for the document not being properly examined. The media cannot apologize for Rather using Burkett as the primary source. Rather knows Travis County very well and he knows Burkett better than the Boston Globe did who refused to use him as a source. Burkett pretty much revealed the conspiracy before the story even broke. As far as I am concerned what he had written on the net before the broadcast serves as a full confession. Murderers have been executed on less of a confession than we now have from Burkett on the public record.