Letters to the Editor
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moira
no sale... i don't really know anything about the circumstances of his suicide, but it sure could have been convenient. the publisher of soft skull press (the eventual publisher) also killed himself as i understand it.
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It's the other questions, stupid
"as breach of fiduciary duty and tortious interference with contract, it will set in motion an inexorable mechanism that will grind out answers to other questions as well"
Don't ya luv it?
Even I, a non-lawyer, picked up on this when I first read about this suit in the LA Times. Tom Cullen of the LAT, for one, just doesn't get it.
Yep, Dan wants to go to depositions and discovery to expose CBS as one more GOP-compliant member of the MSM.
I'm looking fwd. So Dan's no saint? Big friggin' deal.
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Can't spell "taliesan" without "lies"
"Now tell me, is the name Farnham familiar to you?"
There is a Farnham who apparently was an 0231. However, he did not serve at 1st MAW HQ on Okinawa. Given the years he served, I don't believe he was trained at Little Creek in Norkfolk, either. Also, he had one more stripe.
You're making yourself look foolish on this one. What is it with you moonbats and your attacks on those who have served in uniform?
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Fighting 101st Keyboarder in Action
Cpl Groenhagen, who certainly covered himself in honor, during his Marine tour (got all the way to Corporal, must have been really squared away), is now doing yeoman's work engaging the real enemy (commies posting on Salon) as a Grenadier-Bullshitter 2nd Class in the 101st Fighting Keyboarders (motto: Grinning & Spinning cause we're not Winning).
I'd have liked to have seen you do Marine Basic back in mid 50s like Mr. Rather did. I don't think you'd have lasted past the D.I.s first kick to your tiny balls (IMO).
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God Bless Dan Rather
I only wish I had an email address to contact Mr. Rather, just to wish him well and tell him I admire his courage. If there is no one to speak truth to power, how is the average citizen to know the truth? Control of the news is both the goal and the hallmark of a dictatorship. I pray that this lawsuit will have far reaching effects, beyond this one incident. Without truth there can be no freedom. Go Dan!!!!
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"You Don't Want a Dan Rather Moment"
I can personally attest to the negative impact the Rather attack has had on journalism and how it has embolded some to try to supress negative press coverage. I prefer not to name names or provide details that would disclose the individual reporter involved, becasue they were shared with me in confidence, I must be somewhat vague.
I obtained a very damaging internal government memorandum via a public records request and file review. This memorandum revealed that the agency involved was aware of acutely hazardous conditions and failed to warn the public or fix the problem. As a result of this failure to warn and act, people were seriously harmed.
I provided this memo to the NY Times who was writing a story about the incident and explained the meaning of the memo. The NY Times reporter contacted the government agency for comment and was told that the agency ocould not authenticate the memorandum, and warned the reporter, in an attempt to kill the story - quote - "you don't want another Dan Rather moment".
I got a call back from the reporter shortly after - the agency's remarks were shared with me in confidence. But I was then asked, on the reocrd, to explain how I obtained the memo and how I could authenticate it. The burden shifted to me adn I got the sense that either the reporter or editors were reluctant to go with the memo as the lead in the story.
The Times went with the memo story, but the coverage did not reflect the "Rather" pushback, although there was a sentence in the story that described how the memo was obtained.
If these hardball threats are being made overtly to the NY Times, I can imagine there is lots of smaller media outlet and self censorship going on out there.
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Idiot Proof
No, Nerdham, you do it. You try it. So it looks EXACTLY like the documents. You have not got a frickin' clue about how MS Word works in recreating each different letter's movement either up or down or kerned and moved slightly off kilter "wobble" as particular letters on a typewriter would do (as most of the letters in the documents have). And do that "wobble" for each and every letter. Oh, and make sure that if a particular letter has a strange way of landing off-kilter or looks like it doesn't take ink the right way - has a smudge, etc. Oh, and that each letter's peculiar idiosyncratic movement (each individual typewriter letters did that) is reproduced exactly word to word and line to line. Can't happen in MS Word. Why, you even need to ask? Because there is no idiosyncratic off-kilter movement of particular computer letters that can be automatically set to reproduce in MS Word.
Oh, and another thing, having had also a job as typist and then word processor on a computer, look carefully at the ALL CAPS sections in some of the documents - there is a telltale sign of the first cap not coming up to level with the other caps. This is caused by the letter head striking the page before the "shift" key or All Caps key is completely pressed. Anyone who has spent time typing on a typewriter knows this one.
And default settings such as centering, justification, margins, etc.. Any expert and highly experienced typist of that day who typed hundreds of letters a day could reproduce settings from letter to letter, document to document so that those settings were identical and line up titles exactly in the middle, whatever. They knew how to move the paper around within the carriage, etc. and also knew how to move the carriage around enough to get the effect of ligatures, etc. Believe me, they had it down to fine art.
Something you know nothing about - and obviously the logic of recreating it on a real typewriter from the start totally escapes you and all the rest of you nuts. Why would a forger even BOTHER to do it on a computer? It's so simple on a typewriter and so ridiculously complex on a computer. But obviously your brain can't handle anything that complex...or that simple.