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Originally posted by Rudey
Contrast this with CBS and their fake memo that they created. They refused to rescind the story for a week until the pressure got too great and it was shown how they'd lied.
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What? Where did you hear that CBS "created" a fake memo?
As I understand the situation, someone else created the memo and gave it to CBS. In their defense, it can take a while to investigate any charges.
There's also a big difference between defending what you think is reportage (then issuing an apology when you discover it's flawed) and apologizing for something clearly written as a joke, known to be untrue and posted accidentally.
These are two really different situations.
In addition, the this later case, a couple of people at FOX made mistakes -- true. But they are little dumb ones. People at CBS aparantely made the much larger mistakes of not checking out their sources thoroughly enough.
Seems to me that one is a journalistic error and one a couple of personal mistakes.
From me, FOX gets a pass on this one.
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