Tuesday, September 28, 2004

 

You'd Think They'd Learn - CBS Passes on an Urban Legend

Somebody quick! Tell them to go to Snopes.com!

CBS is passing around the same phoney emails that have been circulating for awhile as the real thing in a story. Ratherbiased.com has all the details, but here's a snip:

Daniel Irvin Rather must be a masochist. You'd think that in the midst of the terrible publicity he is currently getting for working closely with a partisan Democrat bent on bringing down President Bush that Dan Rather would have the good sense to lay off the liberal bias for a while. But common sense seems to be in short supply at CBS News these days.

Three weeks after he denounced the internet as being "filled with rumors," the embattled CBS anchor ran a story on his Tuesday "Evening News" program hoping to stir up fear of an impending military draft.

In a story that was a textbook example of slipshod reporting, CBS reporter Richard Schlesinger used debunked internet hoax emails and an unlabeled interest group member to scare elderly "Evening" viewers into believing that the U.S. government is poised to resume the draft.



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