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October 01, 2004
An old story made new?
60 Minutes original creator and producer Don Hewitt says he wouldn't have run the Rathergate forged memo story at all: Speaking on a South Dakota Public Broadcasting radio show, Hewitt said the story was an old one that had already been dealt with in the 2000 presidential campaign.True. It's old. The allegations themselves were raised and debated in 1999. (See my previous post.) Perhaps Rather thought that the American political memory is so short that he could spin this as new. But, thinking it over, is it really fair to accuse Rather of regurgitating old news? Haven't the forgeries been shown to be new memos? posted by Eric on 10.01.04 at 10:47 AM |
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The mass media and most politicians _want_ the political and historical memory of Americans to be short, that's what they count on and ride on when they spin their lies and distortions. They don't like anybody to remember anything past the latest "news cycle".