Many have demanded, and received, an apology from CBS for reporting false claims about President Bush’s National Guard service based on forged documents.
But, as Editor & Publisher notes, what about all those other news organizations that took CBS’s report at face value and reported the same thing themselves?
As CBS News took the big hit Monday for botching its use of suspect documents in a “60 Minutes” segment, newspapers responded with coverage that was appropriately harsh, while not often admitting that many of them, the day after the show was aired, accepted the network’s claims about the documents.
Should we set up a media confessional?
