It's official
In a carefully worded statement, CBS is finally admitting that it failed to perform the necessary due diligence to authenticate the forged Killian memos. Also, they finally seem to be fingering Bill Burkett as the source. It seems too little, too late to salvage Rather's and CBS's credibility, but at least it's done.
I am trying to figure out how I should regard news stories from CBS in the future. Are they always this negligent in their fact checking? Or is it only when they're attacking Bush?
Either way, this has been an eye-opener for me. I never doubted the existence of a liberal slant to the MSM, but I never attributed it to a deliberate, left wing conspiracy either. I simply wrote it off as an inevitable, unconscious side effect of a profession whose practitioners are, as individuals, almost monolithically liberal. Perhaps I was too naive.