Dan Rathers Apology

After reading one of those blogs that you talked to us about in class on Thursday, I found that there are several people that are very angry with CBS and think that CBS still believes the story to be true and is still waiting for proof. You can see CBS’s sense of urgency and that they will handle every thing that is wrong with their company in a business first fashion. That seems to be very suspicious to me that a strong supporter to Kerry would not be able to give a source and that the documents were written in a computer font when during the time period of the Vietnam War only typewriters were used for things like this. I think that the apology was forced upon Dan Rathers by CBS. Dan Rathers decided to go ahead with the story that said that President Bush was given preferential treatment while giving service to the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War. However I like the way that they have quickly begun to take care of this problem by bringing in an independent research group to just tear them apart. Bill Burkett purposely gave CBS fake documents to make an attack on Presidents Bush’s character and failed in my opinion. The documents were given to CBS by Bill Burkett, who served with President Bush, and was asked how he attained the documents and his answer was that he could not give out that information.