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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCBS knew there'd be *serious* consequences when
they ran a true story about George Bush that might have contained a false artifact - so they fired Dan Rather in an instant to mitigate the damage.
When CBS ran an utterly-fraudulent story about the Obama Administration... well, you can fill in the rest.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Extensive media coverage of the excerpted videos, various parties' comments, and later corrections when the full story was discovered, exacerbated the affair. The event brought to the forefront current debates regarding racism in the United States, cable news reporting, ideological websites on the internet, and decisions made by President Barack Obama's administration
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)First CBS fired a producer and asked three other employees who worked on Rather's Bush TANG story to resign. That was all before they got around to Rather...
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)I won't hold my breath either. Every network is competing to be the "new" Fox News.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)hatrack
(59,439 posts)Which I think is an ethical lapse on par with the shoddy, shitty and indifferent "journalism" that went into the story.
Corruption Inc
(1,568 posts)CBS is simply pandering to its happily idiotic viewers that are too stupid to stop believing a media format that has been lying to them for years.
The blame, if their is any, lies within the morons who believe the propaganda.
ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)Earlier this week, Logan acknowledged that CBS erred by not disclosing that the publisher of Davies bookThe Embassy House is Threshold Editions, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, which is a unit of CBS. She called it an oversight. In fact, Threshold is the conservative imprint of the publishing house and has been led by Mary Matalin, a veteran Republican operative who worked for former Vice President Dick Cheney.
CBS = right wing tool
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/the-cbs-benghazi-fiasco