JOURNALIST RYAN PITTS writes on CBS and RatherGate:
Other news outlets have jumped in admirably with investigations into the forgery story, but it’s time to see some harsher words for the failure of journalism that CBS has displayed in its wake. (Andy Rooney should have used a bigger curmudgeon stick, but maybe this Chicago Tribune piece is a start.) Would the media be eating one of its own? Too bad. CBS has screwed all of us over — both with the way it ran the story and with the way it’s handled the backlash. The network’s behavior has confirmed every single nasty thing that everybody believes about the media, and it’s not like we’ve got a nice fat reserve of goodwill to squander right now.
This is where CBS jumps on the grenade. Only fair, considering they pulled the pin and fumbled it in the first place.
Fair, but how likely?