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Weblog:   Could Open Source Journalism Have Saved 60 Minutes?
Subject:   it can go both ways
Date:   2005-01-17 04:23:17
From:   flursn
Response to: it can go both ways

Actually, in this particular case the maintainers of Power Line published their personal and contact information all the the way. Pictures, and phone numbers. The same information could be obtained from Charles Johnson's Little Green Footballs who offered the first conclusive report by typpgraphy expert Dr Newcomer that the memos were fake, and also from big-time aggregator Glenn Reynolds.


So the only one who's been hiding in the process was ... Dan Rather, who had the luxury of waiting ten (10) days before he admitted in public that he "could not vouch for the authenticity of the documents".


However, adding insult to injury, little later a senior figure of the media industry complained that these were "guys in pajamas ... sitting in the basement ... and no one holds them accountable". Well, if you sincerely wanted to hold them accountable, you could have called them.