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Originally posted by Coramoor
The Governor did not confirm the story.
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Didn't say he did.
On the other hand, nobody, including the local/state/federal officials made any kind of official announcement to help bring any kind of light to the subject.
Point is that the "blame" here needs to be spread around.
Nobody handled this case well.
To put the blame entirely on the media is wrong. By the same token, some blame is certainly fair, and there is considerable soul searching going on within the broadcasting and newspaper ranks as to what happened and how to keep it from happening again. News organizations seem to be their own biggest critics at the moment.
That is as it should be.
However, comparisons to this kind of mistake in live coverage to Rather's Memogate aren't even close to apples and oranges. Or, is Mr. Hoosier charging that the media purposfully gave the wrong information last week?
By the way, it might be instructional to poing out that the information that Rather, et al reported about the President's service has never been disproven -- only that it couldn't be proven beyond a doubt either.
Finally, it's interesting to note, that since Memogate, CBS News ratings have taken a fairly dramatic upturn.
Go figure.