Jamie Irons

how will we ever know?

If you have a second, read the forged document story I posted at the beginning of the thread.

This is such a serious breach of professional and, quite possibly, legal standards that it’s going to have to be investigated and resolved.

Unfortunately, this is one of those moments that reminds me of the old Hollywood joke (and I apologize beforehand to anyone who is Polish):

Did you hear the one about the Polish starlet?

She slept with the writer.

Although journalism in the broad sense is my profession (Michael Kelly would say it’s my “craft”), I’m just the writer.

I don’t know how management works; I barely even know what my own contracts say. (Now there’s a confession.)

What I can tell you, though, is that forged documents are so far out of bounds as to Defy Description; at least this situation defies my own powers of description.

One way or another, this has to be put right.

What I don’t know is how much of the story will have to be made public.

If Killian were alive, and could sue for defamation, we could be certain the full story would emerge.

But I’m fairly certain relatives cannot sue on behalf of a person who has passed away.

There is going to be tremendous public and peer pressure on CBS and on Dan Rather specifically to figure out what happened, and let the public know.