More Bias at CBS
For a primer, let's revisit a recent post from RatherBiased.com.

[A]fter heavily promoting and even selling the wares of liberal and anti-Bush figures for years, CBS News has done the exactly the opposite in covering the allegations of the anti-Kerry vets.

After ignoring and badmouthing SBVT for months, Rather and his colleagues have been forced into reporting on their allegations after the Internet and cable television has propelled the group's book, Unfit for Command into the forefront of the presidential campaign.

But their hearts are clearly not into it, as CBS reporters and anchors alike wish aloud that the vets would simply just go away. That stands in marked contrast to CBS's earlier promotion of books and movies by Bush critics Michael Moore, Richard Clarke, Paul O'Neill, Bill Clinton, each of whom has been featured in lengthy 60 Minutes solo interviews. Other Bush opponents like former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson and Al Franken have been heavily promoted in interviews on other CBS News shows and mentioned in numerous news stories.

Meanwhile, conservative favorites such as author Ann Coulter, radio host Sean Hannity, and Unfit for Command author John O'Neill have merited significantly less coverage, if any at all. None has been given a soft 60 Minutes interview. Since his group launched in May, O'Neill has only been invited on one CBS program. Even then he was "balanced" with a pro-Kerry movie maker, something CBS's preferred authors and film-makers never had to contend with....

The situation does not appear to be improving, either. In an interview with RatherBiased.com, O'Neill said that CBS has not shown any interest in interviewing him on 60 Minutes about his accusations that John Kerry has falsified his war record, even as his book hits No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list.

And now the latest Bush critic promoted by CBS is Ben Barnes, not suprisingly somone associated with the Kerry campaign. In fact, he is a Kerry fund-raiser. And still CBS has found the time to feature his undocumented claims on a fawning 60 Minutes feature.

But when hundreds of Vietnam veterans who knew and served with Kerry dispute what Kerry is claiming to this day, CBS attempts to ignore the story.

And so it continues.


Update:

Instapundit has a nice roundup of the issue.

John Cole has a web-of-connections prepared for the NY Times.

American Daily has the other side of the story. (Oh my gosh, Dan -- did you consider there might be another side?)

And at Overtaken by Events, we find the proper context:

Isn't it strange that the biggest difference between the Bush National Guard stories and the Kerry Vietnam controversy is that, in the President's case, it's the major media dogging the story to death? I don't seem to recall any hard-nosed investigative reporting into Kerry's involvement with Vietnam Veterans against the War, a group that actively considered proposals to assassinate government officals. Nor has the New York Times bothered to dig into Kerry's actual testimony before the Senate in which he impugned every man that served.

However, you bring up the possibility that Dubya missed a doctor's appointment, and the AP will spend three years applying all of the resources necessary to uncover the TRUTH.

- posted by The Dutchman @ 9:04:00 PM