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So reports the NYT: The News Media: CBS News Concludes It Was Misled on National Guard Memos, Network Officials Say

After days of expressing confidence about the documents used in a “60 Minutes” report that raised new questions about President Bush’s National Guard service, CBS News officials have grave doubts about the authenticity of the material, network officials said last night.

The officials, who asked not to be identified, said CBS News would most likely make an announcement as early as today that it had been deceived about the documents’ origins. CBS News has already begun intensive reporting on where they came from, and people at the network said it was now possible that officials would open an internal inquiry into how it moved forward with the report. Officials say they are now beginning to believe the report was too flawed to have gone on the air.

Hat tip: bLogicus who kindly informed me of the story via e-mail. He also has links to related stories, including one in the LAT

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bLogicus Says:
September 20th, 2004 at 8:30 am
CBS Close to an Admission (of being misled)
CBS now (probably) admits that the memos, which are the key to their story, are fake and that they were misled, literally victimized, by an anonymous unimpeachable source (or Bill Burkett). The White House is to blame, too. However, the story is accu…

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