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Wednesday, September 15, 2004Non-baseball: CBS continues to fight losing battleThe big CBS statement we've all been waiting for all day (you've been waiting too, right?): (from Drudge)
"We established to our satisfaction that the memos were accurate or we would not have put them on television. There was a great deal of coroborating [sic] evidence from people in a position to know. Having said that, given all the questions about them, we believe we should redouble our efforts to answer those questions, so that's what we are doing."Well, that's just a whole lot'a nothing. "Redouble our efforts"? What the fuck does that mean? All efforts to confirm the authenticity of these documents should have been exhausted before they made their way on to the air. And as Kerry Spot points out, note the use of the word "accurate" instead of "authentic". I have a feeling that will come into play sometime down the road. UPDATE: Here's the statement CBS sent to their local affiliates. Their conclusion? The editorial content of the report was not based solely on the physical documents, but also on numerous credible sources who supported what the documents said.So now they are willing to give up the fight that these memos are real, but still maintain that the report was truthful. Un-fucking believable. So, in summary, this memo should have read: OK, we lied about the memos. You caught us. But we wouldn't ever lie about the content of our stories- promise. We will continue to present slanderous accusations about the president and support these claims with no evidence. Don't worry, you can trust us- it's not like we've ever lied about anything (except the memos).UPDATE: It looks like several local CBS affiliates are in revolt, deciding to show movies in place of the CBS Evening news. One CBS Radio affiliate even went as far as to switch to a FOXNews feed. Good to see someone has some balls. |
