Article Rathergate
On Sept. 8 Dan Rather reported on 60 Minutes that CBS had obtained documents showing that President Bush had disobeyed orders while serving in the National Guard and had then used his family’s influence in order to cover up his poor service record. The documents allegedly came from the files of Col. Killian, Bush’s commanding officer in the Guard. Almost immediately bloggers began pointing out that it looked an awful lot like the documents in question had been written in Microsoft Word, which obviously didn’t exist when Bush was serving in the Guard. CBS didn’t pay much attention to the bloggers, but when it realized that its source for the documents, Bill Burkett, had lied about how he obtained them, it decided that it could no longer vouch for their authenticity. Rather apologized for airing the story.