Res Publica 2005

The blogosphere was all over CBS News’ latest use of fake documents, shoddy research, and misleading reporting in its latest story about the draft.

(For those unaware: CBS News with Dan Ra^ther reports on a ‘Bush’ supporter worried about her sons being drafted in second term. There is no draft. Bush opposes it. Kerry and his surrogates accuse him of planning to reinstate it with no evidence. The plan to reinstate the draft is actually being pushed by two Democrats Charlie Rangel and Fritz Hollings. It’s deader than Jacob Marley.)

Murrow was always a hero of mine, a journalistic Jedi knight. I remember listening to programs that played his broadcasts of news during the bombing of London, and I thought, this is how you do it. In my mind, at least, he typifies what I thought journalists should be like: searching for the truth, willing to fight the powers that be to get the truth out, and trying hard to be impartial and honest.

CBS, the house that Murrow built, has embraced the Dark Side of theForce.

# posted by Knitting a Conundrum @ 6:24 AM