CBS Forgeries: Monday 20 Sept 2004

1. NEWS CBS News Concludes It Was Misled on National Guard Memos, Network Officials Say (nytimes)
2. NEWS After Blogs Got Hits, CBS Got a Black Eye (washingtonpost)
3. NEWS "Seared in My Memory" (mackubin owens, nationalreview)
4. NEWS CBS can't vouch for Bush Guard memos, White House asks if Kerry campaign involved: "CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authentic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard to justify using them in the report," CBS News President Andrew Heyward said in a statement issued by the network.
   "We should not have used them. That was a mistake, which we deeply regret." (CNN)
5. NEWS CBS: Bush Memo Story A 'Mistake': CBS News said Monday it cannot prove the authenticity of documents used in a 60 Minutes story about President Bush's National Guard service and that airing the story was a "mistake" that CBS regretted. (cbsnews.com)
   

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