"Within a few minutes, I was online visiting Websites I had never heard of before: Free Republic, Little Green Footballs, Power Line," writes Mapes..."
THIS was her downfall. If she had been in the business for this long and not heard of these sites it is obvious she was a VERY POOR researcher. If you weren't aware of us or little green footballs, by then your were doomed before you put the paper in the typerwriter.
If she had actually put the paper in a typewriter instead of in a laser printer the forgery would have been harder to prove.
"Within a few minutes, I was online visiting Websites I had never heard of before: Free Republic, Little Green Footballs, Power Line," writes Mapes..."
"THIS was her downfall. If she had been in the business for this long and not heard of these sites it is obvious she was a VERY POOR researcher."
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Bingo.
Many of us have been doing research regarding news stories for ten and more years using the internet.
This statement just shows how out of touch with reality that Mapes and her cronies have been. IF they had listened to Rush, Hannity or Gallagher even sporadically, they would have been far better informed about us... That the existance of this type of networking was a surprise to them in itelf shows how far they have fallen.
They blindly have gone along for lo these many years believing that they have had a complete monopoly on news and analysis.
They haven't.
ROTFLMPO
(Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Pajamas Off)
Yep. What she just admitted was that she was living in a bubble, unaware of what had been going on around her for some time. Not a good thing for someone responsible for pullilng together all of the "facts" for her news stories.