Today’s Chronicle features a puff piece by Mike McDaniel on CBS’s Dan Rather today.
Local blogger William Dyer is not impressed:
Even for a puff-piece, even for an op-ed, this string of distortions would be beyond the pale, but Mr. McDaniel’s article is published as “news.” Rather’s defiant self-defenses outnumber his “apologies” by a huge margin, and he’s been anything but “tight-lipped.” The panel report inexcusably stopped short of saying that the documents had been conclusively proved fraudulent; Rather turns that on its head to say that they weren’t “conclusively authenticated,” and Mr. McDaniel signs on to that distortion without comment.
Dyer’s just getting warmed up.
