CBS Report Released
The blogosphere is boiling over in a big tub o' RATHERGATE.
- Download the report and read it for yourself. (PDF format)
Now read the commentary...
- Rathergate.com
- Ratherbiased has info.
- Jeff Jarvis reacts.
- TVNewser digests, and has an exclusive interview with a CBS VP.
- Geraghty too.
- And Instapundit.
- INDC
- Michelle Malkin
- The Captain has comments.
- Hugh Hewitt
- Dan Gillmor
CBS Producer Mary Mapes (now unemployed) released a statement today. (PDF format) Powerline analyzes.
Ace highlights a CBS smear on Mapes.
Wizbang lists the 10 most serious defects found in the preparation and reporting of the story.
Scylla & Charybdis - "Whitewash!"
Howie Kurtz/Dana Milbank: "President Bush was reelected, and Dan Rather wasn't." (WaPo reg required)
Drudge: "CBS News could be out of business in five years."
Illustrative commentary from Cox and Forkum.
Little Green Footballs: The DNC Connection.
Goldstein: Mary Mapes spotted in Arby's.
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