Comments on: Dan Rather Goes on Offense http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2008/11/17/dan-rather-goes-on-offense/ A blog about television by TIME’s TV critic James Poniewozik. Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:42:04 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: plukasiak http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2008/11/17/dan-rather-goes-on-offense/comment-page-1/#comment-17274 plukasiak Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:50:21 +0000 http://timetunedin.wordpress.com/?p=1171#comment-17274 the meta-meta story here is that the Times story is basically a rip-off of the work being done by felix gillette over at the New York Observer. Gillette did a piece detailing the GOP connections back on November 6th, based on the same court documents -- and his subsequent reporting has been even more relevatory. This is especially latest piece, in which it becomes clear that the whole Thornburgh/Boccardi think was just a pantomime... ("our instruction to leave the organism alive after the cancer is removed.”) http://www.observer.com/2008/media/rather-lawyers-charge-heyward-hondled-troopergate-panel in other words, there is nothing "new" in the Times piece -- and the story here is about how the facts in the Times story have been available for over 10 days, but only now that the story is being reported by The Times are those facts considered important enough for the rest of the media to examine.... the meta-meta story here is that the Times story is basically a rip-off of the work being done by felix gillette over at the New York Observer. Gillette did a piece detailing the GOP connections back on November 6th, based on the same court documents -- and his subsequent reporting has been even more relevatory. This is especially latest piece, in which it becomes clear that the whole Thornburgh/Boccardi think was just a pantomime... ("our instruction to leave the organism alive after the cancer is removed.”)
http://www.observer.com/2008/media/rather-lawyers-charge-heyward-hondled-troopergate-panel

in other words, there is nothing "new" in the Times piece -- and the story here is about how the facts in the Times story have been available for over 10 days, but only now that the story is being reported by The Times are those facts considered important enough for the rest of the media to examine....

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