Victory for Bill From INDC! Boston Globe Retracts Headline!

Bill from INDC recently ripped into the Boston Globe for distorting the opinion of Bill's own document-authentication expert, Dr. Bouffard, into the flat-out false headline Authenticity Backed on Bush Documents.

He had a nice chat with the Globe folks today, too, he tells me.

I guess he was pretty convincing:

"Because of an editing error, the headline on a Page One story Saturday on whether documents released by CBS News about President Bush's Texas Air National Guard service are genuine ("Authenticity backed on Bush documents") did not accurately reflect the content of the story. The story quoted one analyst saying that the documents could have been produced on typewriters available in the early 1970s, but the analyst did not vouch for the authenticity of the documents. A second analyst quoted in the story said he doubts the documents are authentic."

Yes, an "editing error," I'm sure. Oddly enough, the Boston Globe ombudsman and reporter argued with Bill on the phone about this "editing error." Strange, isn't it, that an "editing error" -- a glitch, a typo -- would require such arguing about, no?

At any rate -- once again, a blogger has proven far more reliable than a liberal MSM source.

Bill himself reviews the situation here.

Thanks to Stumbo-- great catch, my man.

posted by Ace at 03:54 PM

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