Rather.
The Dan Rather/National Guard media circus continues. There is a good case to be made that Rather and CBS News crossed the line. (*)
As I said before, the media should just admit their biases in order to protect their credibility. (†) They wouldn’t even have to make an open statement. They could just stealthily signal their bias, as Fox News does.
One positive outcome of this might be a melding together of the blog world with the news world. Blogs need reporters. Usually this is done through surrogate reporters in the form of links to news articles on the web. News organizations have reporters, but they need a better format of presentation. The scattershot newspaper front page, where everything is arranged out of order, may be dated. Perhaps a major news organization will adopt the blog format.
September 25th, 2004 at 18:17
With respect to Rathergate, I think one point of clarification needs to be made. The mainstream media keeps referring to the documents as ‘forged’. I think a more appropriate term is ‘fake’. Forged implies authentic documents actually exist somewhere and there is no evidence to support that assertion.