Rathergate Was About More Than Dan Rather
CBS took all the hits for Dan Rather's forged smear attempt at the President shortly before the election, but a couple of other players in that story have slipped through the cracks.
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Via INDC Journal where Bill also points out that The Boston Globe's participation in the scandal is worthy of some scrutiny as well. I agree, and would note that during the Rathergate media circus there was one issue I felt was worthy of more coverage was that the Globe's coverage of the Bush AWOL story was headed up by a man named Walter V. Robinson, who was found guilty of libel against John R. Lakian, a Republican up for the party's Presidential nomination in 1982.
The Globe is often credited with "breaking" the Bush AWOL story and was heavily involved in the Killian memos story that was at the heart of the Rathergate controversy, yet their news team responsible for this coverage was being lead by a man with a history of libel against Republican candidates.
If that's not worthy of scrutiny, I don't know what is.
Here are some of my previous posts about The Globe's coverage of Rathergate:
Checkered Past
The Media Is Trying To Close The Door
Media Monitor - In some unfinished business from the "Rathergate" scandal, we continue to come across people who don't know that USA Today ran the same virtual story as CBS News, based on the same bogus Bush National Guard documents. CBS apologized and fired four. USA Today hasn't apologized or fired anybody. It hopes the scandal will simply go away. But we won't let it.
Read the whole thing.
Via INDC Journal where Bill also points out that The Boston Globe's participation in the scandal is worthy of some scrutiny as well. I agree, and would note that during the Rathergate media circus there was one issue I felt was worthy of more coverage was that the Globe's coverage of the Bush AWOL story was headed up by a man named Walter V. Robinson, who was found guilty of libel against John R. Lakian, a Republican up for the party's Presidential nomination in 1982.
The Globe is often credited with "breaking" the Bush AWOL story and was heavily involved in the Killian memos story that was at the heart of the Rathergate controversy, yet their news team responsible for this coverage was being lead by a man with a history of libel against Republican candidates.
If that's not worthy of scrutiny, I don't know what is.
Here are some of my previous posts about The Globe's coverage of Rathergate:
Checkered Past
The Media Is Trying To Close The Door
