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09/30/2004 Archived Entry: "DAN DOES IT AGAIN"

Posted by steve @ 03:14 PM EST [Link]

DOES CBS NEWS EVER LEARN?: The New York Post reports that CBS News was used once again by someone with an anti-Bush agenda.

Consider: Both President Bush and Sen. John Kerry say they adamantly oppose reinstitution of the military draft, which was ended in 1973. The Pentagon also says it is vehemently opposed to giving up the all-volunteer army.

But that didn't stop "The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather" and reporter Richard Schlesinger from airing a story Tuesday about a Pennsylvania woman's fears that her sons will be drafted.

"I think there's a good possibility," said Beverly Cocco, ID'd only as an average voter, and a Bush supporter to boot — yet with only one issue on her mind.

But there was more to her than that.

What Rather & Co. did not tell their viewers is that she is an activist — the head of the Pennsylvania chapter of People Against the Draft, an allegedly bipartisan group that opposes not only the draft but also the war in Iraq, arguing for a "peaceful, rational foreign policy."

Is there anyone minding the shop over at CBS News?

Read on.

[Update - 3:17pm] Turns out it isn't only CBS. Michelle Malkin reports that NBC News' reports on fears over the draft are pretty bad too.