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...want to say personally and directly I'm sorry ... This was an error made in good faith." DAN RATHER, CBS news anchor, during an on-air apology in which he said the network could no longer vouch for the authenticity of documents that supported a 60 Minutes report on President Bush's service in the National Guard...
...been the featured speaker at a 2001 Texas Democratic fund raiser (even if he did apologize later), and whom his colleague Andy Rooney describes as "transparently liberal." Within hours of the 60 Minutes broadcast Sept. 8, skeptical bloggers were spitting challenges to the authenticity of the CBS documents on Internet sites like freerepublic.com and powerlineblog.com No typewriter in 1972, the Netizens argued, could have produced those papers, which alleged that Bush violated orders to take a physical and that his superiors were pressed to "sugarcoat" his evaluation...
MICHAEL POWELL, chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, fining CBS network a record $550,000 for Janet Jackson's Super Bowl breast exposure
...Wednesday, the FCC fined CBS News $550,000 for the Super Bowl debacle last February, in which Janet Jackson got unexpectedly intimate with upwards of 90 million people at the hands of one Justin Timberlake. The two were performing during half-time and Timberlake got gropy mid-routine, ripping at Jackson’s jacket—and revealing the singer’s right breast. (Timberlake deemed the mistake a “wardrobe malfunction,” but while Dartboard agrees that Timberlake is a complete dolt, his incoherence doesn’t warrant such a fine.) Despite...
...course, a media network as powerful and pervasive as CBS ought to be held accountable for its reporting, ensuring that any information it receives—and broadcasts—is authentic. But a presidential election that could radically change the course of the country is looming. Without more media coverage of topics that really matter—issues more vital than whether Bush skipped out of service or if Kerry’s war medals were merited—America’s voting public will be left uniformed and unprepared come November...