Comments on: The Power of the Jump�: L.A. Times Still Burying Evidence that CBS Presented Forged Documents

By: M. Simon

M. Simon — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Why was the train wreck inevitable?

Collusion. Leads to collision.

By: Beldar

Beldar — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Good post, as always.

At least the headline and lede might have induced a few more readers to turn back to see the basis for the “skepticism.” On the scale of LAT bias, burying the meat on a back page still gets them a “much improved!” grade.

By: JollyBuddah

JollyBuddah — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

You folks need to check out Atrios where this link was posted Friday at 8:58 a.m.: linked text
This link is courtesy of Atrios here: http://www.atrios.blogspot.com Atrios claims to have spent five seconds doing a google search to find out that “proportional spacing” was not invented by Bill Gates. Maybe the so called “experts” ought to learn the advanced art of forensic googling.

And, here’s the Selectric Composer: linked text

The Selectric came out in 1961. The IBM Selectric was hardly a rare curiosity that you would never have found at a military base. The bottom line is that the kerneling, Roman font and proportional spacing flaws in the Killian documents are all factually inaccurate.

Additional link: linked text

Additional information on how the “forgery” meme was pushed by Conservative PR firms:
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By Thursday, the online Drudge Report and the Weekly Standard were also trumpeting the accusations. And Creative Response Concepts sent out a press release to major news organizations stating that the “documents on Bush might be fake.”

In the release, Creative Response promoted a Web site called Cybercast News Service, one of several groups directed by Brent Bozell, a longtime right-wing activist who has devoted years to attacking the “liberal bias” of the mainstream press. His Media Research Center and other similar efforts have been heavily funded by conservative billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife.

Can someone explain how you reach the conclusion that the forgery case has been proven? It looks to me like this story is devolving into hyper-technical nonsense that will end up with coverage like this:
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Which hardly seems like a triumph of the blogosphere over the media.

By: JollyBuddah

JollyBuddah — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

OK, IBM seems to have added security to their site. The link worked this morning.

The additional link is here: http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric_typewriter

and it isn’t working now either. This one may be getting excessive traffic.

By: JollyBuddah

JollyBuddah — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Good thing this is a slow moving post. That cut and paste link is here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric_typewriter

By: JollyBuddah

JollyBuddah — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I just ran across this link to this week’s Time magazine:

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It looks like big media is still dominant. Resistance is futile.

By: Little Miss Attila

Little Miss Attila — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

What’s Frightening
about this is my confidence that there have been other frauds just as egregious as Rathergate by broadcast news organizations, but people either haven’t had the resources to check on them, or if they saw the problems they didn’t have…