A Rather Line I Hadn’t Noticed… (A Line I’d Rather Not Have Noticed?)

In Kerry Spot on NRO today, Jim Geraghty provides a line by line fisking of I, Dan’s lame Friday night defense. Reading it, something I hadn’t noticed before now seems noteworthy. On air is Bush-basher Jim Moore:

RATHER: Put it in context and perspective for us, the story and the — what we’ll call the counterattack on the story.

Geraghty comments, “‘Counterattack’? Feeling a little defensive, Mr. Rather,” but I think the term bespeaks something more, and more disturbing, than defensiveness.

If “I, Dan” (again, reference is to this post) regards criticism of the TANG documents as a “counterattack,” then he must regard his own initial use of them as an attack.

Is that what network news anchors should be doing?

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  1. Bruce Rheinstein September 13, 2004 at 2:35 pm | | Reply

    By all accounts this is a story that CBS has been working on for several years — that Bush is somehow unqualified to be President because of his service in the Air National Guard three decades ago. Broadcasting it within 60 days of a general election was clearly intended to effect the outcome of the election. And it has, although probably not in the way they expected.

    There’s a serious issue of coordination, too, with nearly identical attacks on Bush’s service coming out at the same time from media, activist groups and the DNC.

  2. mikem September 14, 2004 at 3:24 am | | Reply

    Dan Rather is now disgraced, but, I’m guessing, no one within his cocoon at CBS has the guts to tell him that yet. As more and more mainstream papers see that they need to “take a stand” on journalistic fraud or risk being soiled by CBS’ disgrace, they will publicize the facts and CBS will be forced to axe Rather or allow his ego to take them all with him.

    All I want for Christmas is Dan’s resignation prior to Bush’s reelection.

  3. Vance September 19, 2004 at 12:46 pm | | Reply

    Yellow journalism, anyone? So much for ethics.

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