powerlineblog.com - 12/1/2008
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Edward Wasserman is the Knight professor of journalism ethics at Washington and Lee University. He recently wrote a column for the Miami Herald that comes to the defense of Dan Rather in his lawsuit against CBS. The column was drawn to my attention when it was republished this week by the Star ...
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Professing Ignorance
Fraters Libertas —
... WWII decades after their nation's surrender. The chore of deprogramming the professor falls to Scott Johnson of Power Line and he is brutally efficient. Excerpt: Wasserman cites the Thornburgh - Boccardi report in support of his argument here, but It is hard to believe that Wasserman has read it. If he has read it, this professor of journalism ethics needs to be reminded that it's not ethical to withhold from your readers relevant evidence directly contradicting your thesis. A second journalism ethics professor, this time from some college in Canada, picked a fight ...
Rather Continues Lying About Forged Documents; NPR Aids and Abets
Ace of Spades HQ —
... tune. They darkly hint that Thornburgh's Republican affiliation taints the report, without pausing for a moment to consider that perhaps the report is too easy on CBS due to the fact that CBS paid for the report.) While the report claims that, an appendix by an expert leaves no doubt whatsoever that the documents are forged. If one wants to see the real verdict on the documents, one must look to Appendix 4, where an expert declares without equivocation they were produced on a modern computer: (2) The font/typestyle of the documents: The Thornburgh-Boccardi report provides ...
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