Beldar: Rather-worship poses as news
Today's Chronicle features a puff piece by Mike McDaniel on CBS's Dan Rather today.
Local blogger William Dyer is not impressed:
Even for a puff-piece, even for an op-ed, this string of distortions would be beyond the pale, but Mr. McDaniel's article is published as "news." Rather's defiant self-defenses outnumber his "apologies" by a huge margin, and he's been anything but "tight-lipped." The panel report inexcusably stopped short of saying that the documents had been conclusively proved fraudulent; Rather turns that on its head to say that they weren't "conclusively authenticated," and Mr. McDaniel signs on to that distortion without comment.
Dyer's just getting warmed up.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 03/06/05 04:35 PM | Print | Comments (3)
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