RatherGate: The dirty laundry is even dirtier than you thought

One of the most disturbing aspects of the Thornburgh/Boccardi report on the CBS Bush National Guard documents fiasco is that it reveals how the network essentially turned its own evening news broadcast into a PR campaign for itself. CBS went on the air day after day contending that the documents had been authenticated when they very obviously hadn’t been in any meaningful sense of the word, and they misrepresented what even sources they put on the air had been telling them.

If anyone wants their darkest suspicions about the modern news business confirmed, they need look no further.

(I have more on this over at CJR Daily.)


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