Against Bush & A Free Iraq: The Media
But common sense seems to be in short supply at CBS News these days since Rather and his associates have done the exact same thing in less than a month.
Three weeks after he denounced the internet as being “filled with rumors,” the embattled CBS anchor ran a story on his Tuesday “Evening News” program hoping to stir up fear of an impending military draft.
In a story that was a textbook example of slipshod reporting, CBS reporter Richard Schlesinger used debunked (by the nonpartisan FactCheck.org) internet hoax emails and an unlabeled interest group member to scare elderly “Evening” viewers into believing that the U.S. government is poised to resume the draft. Rather Biased
