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September 14, 2004

Well, Mr. Rather: Did Killian Have Access to a High-End Typesetting Machine or Not?

As others have noted, Dan Rather has utterly inverted the normal rules of evidence to his advantage. He claims that his story is backed up by a "preponderance of the evidence," but demands "definitive" evidence the documents are forgeries before he will recant.

He and CBS News have also taken the position that they need only prove that it is merely possible that some typewriter out there could have produced documents looking something like this, whereas the critics must prove, dispositively, that that's entirely impossible.

That doesn't seem to have been the low evidentiary hurdle the SwiftVets were expected to clear.

MyPetJawa has decided to get in on this crazy "bloggers actually doing original reportage" kick that seems to be all the rage lately, and he's done a little research. I don't think his findings are anywhere near conclusive, but if an amateur one-man blogging operation is able to call up and read military procurement contracts, why isn't CBS News able to do so, and thereby actually prove their allegations?

What the hell is going on? Is the legitimate media now claiming for itself a lesser standard of evidence and fact-checking than they demand for one-man amateur internet bloggers?

If that's the case, they might as well come straight out and admit that bloggers are generally more reliable than they are.


posted by Ace at 03:39 PM
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If that's the case, they might as well come straight out and admit that bloggers are generally more reliable than they are.

Impossible! Bloggers don't go to J-school, of course. And everybody knows that when you go to J-school, they wave the Magic Wand of Journalism and sprinkle some magic journalism dust on you (pat. pend.) and, voila: you're a journalist! But these bloggers have never gone through that magical process and are, therefore, rendered drooling simpletons.

By the way, that picture of Al Gore you've got up? He's starting to look like Boss Hogg. I wonder if we can find a picture of him in a white suit...

Posted by: Smack on September 14, 2004 04:00 PM

Thanks for plug. That's exactly the point. The basic info. from the military procurement contracts is online, but I bet the originals have a whole lot more detail. All that it would take for CBS (or any other news network) to get the origingal contracts would be to stroll down to the National Archive and ask for it. Maybe we could get Bill to drop by and make the request.

Posted by: RS on September 14, 2004 04:28 PM

Smack, yes, I sort of wanted to point out that while womp-rats are much bigger than two meters, Al Gore definitely is.

Posted by: ace on September 14, 2004 04:47 PM

Don't forget - Killian's family still denies that he would even write these memos.

Posted by: Da Goddess on September 14, 2004 05:21 PM
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