The web site Rathergate.com has done some excellent work on this file and has laid out their case beautifully here. We last discussed it here.
Proof CBS Covered Tracks on Draft Story
Filed under: General— RatherBiased.com @ 7:19 am [9/30/04]CBS News has tacitly admitted wrongdoing in not identifying that Beverly Cocco, the woman featured in its story about the draft. In the original CBS report, Cocco’s membership in an anti-war group, People Against the Draft, was not disclosed. In a CBSNews.com piece based on the TV story, Cocco’s membership was not revealed, either.
After RatherBiased.com debunked the CBS report and criticized the network for once again featuring a member of a liberal group without revealing her political background, CBS News has since gone back and changed the online version of Richard Schlesinger’s story. It now informs readers that Cocco is a member of People Against the Draft.
LGF first alleged that CBS had altered its page. Now we have proof positive that the network has changed its story. In the image below, the upper portion is a snapshot of Google’s cached copy of the original CBS story. The lower part of the image comes from the altered CBS page.
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We applaud CBS for even silently admitting it made a mistake but the network needs to inform its web site readers that a correction has been made to the story. When newspapers learn of inaccuracies, they correct them but also notify readers that a change has been made to the original story. To do otherwise is to rewrite the historical record.
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