Also in today's Huffington Post is a piece by Mary Mapes, who was Dan Rather's producer on the story about W's military "service." Reading it, I realized that even I was bedazzled by the right-wing smokescreen put out to protect President "Mission Accomplished" (six weeks before the election) against having to confront how he cut and ran when war confronted his generation. And the news media, which should have blown the smoke away, caved in cravenly.
The fact that Mapes and Rather were thrown overboard by the network that stood up to Joe McCarthy in the '50's let us know how far the once-mighty have fallen.
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Even though what Mapes and Rather presented were fake documents! Can't imagine why CBS would want to hols to standards like truth and honesty.
Mapes made clear in her post that the one document--out of much evidence, including the words of Ben Barnes, former Lt. Gov. of Texas, that W got special treatment--was a photocopy that could not be verified through technical terms, and that that was stated. Interesting, isn't it, that no one has said that W actually attended all those drills. They only attack those who say he didn't.
Mapes defending Mapes. That is sure to bring the truth to the surface.
It isn't a matter of defending Bush, that is his problem. It is a matter of being able to trust and believe in the integrity of those that purport to deliver the "news". If she or Rather wanted to opine on the subject, fine. Just be sure to do so in a manner that seperates those statements from the idea that what they are delivering is news.
Heck, it was guys like you that destroyed their reporting to start with. Now that is something to be proud of. I love the fact that TONE can present his opinions in such a public manner. It goes to the beauty of the blogs that someone with a different view, like me, can comment on them. This is the new public discourse.
But a broadcast that takes place just before an election, that presents "evidence" that could have a huge impact on that election, needs to be trustworthy and unerringly accuarate. To be anything else isn't news it is smear and mudslinging.
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