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CBS Deathwatch?

September 11, 2004 - 3:31 pm - by Roger L Simon
Tom Holsinger
2004-09-11 22:41:48

I recommend Powerline in two places:

here – http://powerlineblog.com/archives/007806.php

“… What do Brig. Gen. William Turnipseed, Capt. George M. Elliott, and now Dr. Phillip Bouffard all have in common? They were all misquoted in the Boston Globe.

What’s more, there seems to be a pattern. The Globe quotes, the source objects, the MSM refers to it as a “recantation,” the Globe stands by its story and claims to be relying on what the source “originally said.” We have an identical situation with Sharon Bush (Kitty Kelly) and a similar set of circumstances with Maj. Gen. Bobby Hodges (CBS).

It’s almost as if interviewing these people was just a formality, allowing for the appearance of investigative journalism. In the meantime, they write whatever they wish. If the person quoted never speaks up, great. If they do, then just claim what the person says now is not what they were saying before and it becomes a kind of draw, which is really a victory for them. The public is now left with the impression that it’s unclear what really happened when there was never any evidence to support the allegation in the first place.”

and here -

http://powerlineblog.com/archives/007807.php

“… So we have entered a new era. We now know that our richest and most powerful news organizations are willing to blow themselves up–to destroy their own credibility, once considered a news organ’s most precious possession–to achieve a political goal. The landscape will never look quite the same again. Those of us who still value truth must look at the mainstream media in a new, more skeptical and critical way, taking nothing for granted. Because, like suicide bombers, the mainstream news organs will go farther to achieve their political goals than we ever imagined.”