Rathergate "investigation" report due today.
Drudge and a number of sources are reporting that CBS's internal investigation into the fake documents scandal should be released tomorrow.
The question is, what are we to expect? Has there really been anything since the scandal erupted in September that would show anyone that CBS has changed it's ways and will be honest about it's deceit?
I don't think so. I envision a report that simply highlights CBSNews's "carelessness". What they will call careless is actually intentional and unethical. They will try to make CBS staffers look like victims, instead of the culprits. And while it's possible that Mapes will be the fall guy- taking all the blame and thus getting fired for it - the truth is that the whole hierarchy is responsible for the mistakes made. In short, Rather nor Heyward are going anywhere.
All you have to do is look at how CBSNews acted in the run-up to Election Day to see nothing has changed. CBSNews was prepared to run a report about a missing cache of weapons in Iraq on the Sunday before the election. If it wasn't for the New York Times fearing the story being leaked before Sunday and reporting the story a week before the election, CBSNews would have gotten away with it. CBSNews's past history points to them intentionally airing this on Sunday in the hopes that the Bush campaign would not be able to adequately respond to it by Election Day, and possibly tilting the election to Kerry.
Will CBSNews admit their collaborations with the Kerry campaign? It's already been well documented that Mapes was in contact with Kerry senior advisor Joe Lockhart and was able to get Bill Burkett in contact with him. Burkett was able to get in contact with Kerry stooge Max Cleland. Has this investigation uncovered the alliance in full detail, and will it be included in the report?
I'm not holding my breath. It's hard to be optimistic about anything concerning CBSNews . If this report is released tomorrow, we'll see what happens.
Posted at 03:17 am by Expertise
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