RatherGate

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Was RatherGate an example of liberal bias? Was CBS trying to sway the 2004 election with the effort now known as RatherGate?

Affirmative views

• Political Bias? What Political Bias? - John Podhoretz, Weekly Standard

"When CBS finally announced it could no longer stand behind the broadcast on September 20, it appeared that the network's decision to conduct an aggressive self-defense had come to a proper end--that it had been humbled by its calamitous conduct and was prepared to make a clean breast of its mistakes. But it's clear from the report released last week that CBS's aggressive self-defense has continued, albeit in a new and clever form. The network hired supposedly independent outside examiners, but whether consciously or not, its two Wise Men turned out to be shills for CBS."

Counter views

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