January 12, 2005

GET the latest on Rathergate from RatherBiased.com here. RatherBiased.com took a million hits yesterday, and has re-arranged things a bit to handle the load.

UPDATE: The Daily Blogster also has great coverage.

See also this, this, this and this. Quotable:

I .. don't think the people at CBS understand why they are in a tailspin, and have been for some years. The fundamental problem, I think, has been a willingness to sacrifice accuracy in order to serve political objectives ..

the fundamental problem that led to the downfall of 60 Minutes and, perhaps, CBS News, was the fact that no one involved in the reportorial or editorial process was a Republican or a conservative. If there had been anyone in the organization who did not share Mary Mapes's politics, who was not desperate to counteract the Swift Boat Vets and deliver the election to the Democrats, then certain obvious questions would have been asked ..

because virtually everyone in the CBS News organization shared Mary Mapes's politics and objective .. skeptical questions were not asked. If there is a single overriding explanation for how a fake story, intended to influence a Presidential election through the use of forged documents, could have been promulgated by 60 Minutes, it is the lack of diversity at CBS News.

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