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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2004
CBS News apologizes recants untrue segment
CBS: Source misled network about Bush military record
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — CBS News apologized yesterday for a "mistake in judgment" in its story questioning President Bush's National Guard service, claiming it was misled by the source of documents that several experts have dismissed as fakes.
The network said it would appoint an independent panel to look at its reporting about the memos. The story has mushroomed into a major media scandal, threatening the reputations of CBS News and chief anchor Dan Rather.
It also became an issue in the presidential campaign. The White House said the affair raises questions about the connections between CBS's source, retired Texas National Guard officer Bill Burkett, and Democrat John Kerry's campaign.
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Rather joined CBS News President Andrew Heyward in issuing an apology yesterday
"We made a mistake in judgment, and for that I am sorry." Rather said. "It was an error that was made, however, in good faith and in the spirit of trying to carry on a CBS News tradition of investigative reporting without fear or favorism."
Almost immediately after the story aired Sept. 8, document experts questioned memos purportedly written by Bush's late squadron leader, Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian, saying they appeared to have been created on a computer and not on the kind of typewriter in use during the 1970s.
CBS strongly defended its story. It wasn't until a week later — after Killian's former secretary said she believed the memos were fake — did the news division admit they were questionable.
Burkett admitted this weekend to CBS that he lied about obtaining the documents from another former National Guard member, the network said.
CBS hasn't been able to conclusively tell how he got them, or even definitely tell whether they're fakes or not. But the network has given up trying to
"Please know that nothing is more important to us than people's trust in our ability and our commitment to report fairly and truthfully."
Dan Rather CBS News chief anchor
defend them.
"Based on what we now know, CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authentic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard to justify them in the report," Heyward said. "We should not have used them."
The Associated Press could not immediately reach Burkett for comment. Rather was set to interview Burkett last night on CBS' evening news program.
Heyward told The Associated Press it was not clear what, if any, disciplinary action would be taken against CBS News employees.
Besides tainting the network's flagship broadcast, 60 Minutes, the report was a damaging blow to Rather, 72. Some have suggested the scandal, along with the low ratings of the CBS Evening News, could hasten Rather's retirement.
"Please know that nothing is more important to us than people's trust in our ability and our commitment to report fairly and truthfully." Rather said.
nulty. Rather than Alex Jones, director of Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, said it appeared to be an honest mistake by CBS, not a willful attempt to deceive. But he said the network was too slow to respond.
respond.
"I think that their delaying and obvious resistance to acknowledge the evident realities has kept the story alive a lot longer than it needed to be and was a lot more damaging to CBS than it needed to be," he said.
For 60 Minutes, it's the biggest ethical mess since the 1995 incident captured in the movie The Insider, which depicted the newsmagazine caving to pressure from CBS
lawyers and not airing a whistleblowing report from an extobacco executive.
Jones said questions will probably center on the story's producer, Mary Mapes. She's one of the network's top investigators and broke the story of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal photos. Her immediate boss is Josh Howard, recently named executive producer of the 60 minutes Wednesday edition.
White House press secretary Scott McClellan said the White House appreciated CBS's expression of regret but that there were still serious questions about Burkett.
"Bill Burkett, who CBS now says is their source, in fact is not an unimpeachable source as was previously claimed," McLellan said. "Bill Burkett is a source who has been discredited and so this raises a lot of questions. There were media reports about Mr. Burkett having senior level contacts with the Kerry campaign."
The Kerry campaign has said it had nothing to do with the story.
Burkett, a Democrat, sent an e-mail last month to several Texas Democrats, saying he had passed along information to former Georgia senator and Kerry supporter Max Cleland about information that would counter criticism of Kerry's Vietnam War service.
service.
Cleland said yesterday that he does "not have any knowledge" about documents used to support the 60 Minutes story.
Heyward told The AP he has "no reason to believe either the Kerry campaign or the Bush campaign was involved in this."
The call for an independent review was reminiscent of CNN's "Tailwind" scandal in 1998. The cable network retracted a story that the U.S. military had used nerve gas in Laos during the Vietnam war.
CNN appointed independent panels to look into the "Tailwind" story and the missed election calls of 2000. Both panels helped to restore trust in the network and resulted in real changes to the networks' operation, said Tom Johnson, CNN's chief executive at the time.
"As with all professions, we screw up at time," Johnson said. "We need to admit it when we do."
Registration drives aim to get student vote in swing states
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Voter registration drives aimed at young people are turning 18-to-24-year-olds into an important variable in the presidential election, especially in decisive battleground states such as Michigan and Wisconsin.
They are the nation's newest swing voters, with polls showing their support for the major candidates has vacillated in recent months. A Harvard University poll found that, in a five-month period, 19 percent of young potential voters changed their minds about whom they'd support.
which they say is a big population of fluid voters, and they're largely unknown," says Ivan Frishberg, outreach and communications coordinator for the nonprofit New Voters Project, which has registered tens of thousands of young people across the country.
Take Kristin Wilson, a 23-year-old in Perrysburg, Ohio, and her 18-year-old sister, Kellyn, a freshman at Ohio State University. Both have registered to vote, but neither identifies as Republican or Democrat and both are taking their time deciding who to vote for.
"I think people underestimate people our age," Kellyn says.
And they shouldn't."
"I think people underestimate people our age. And they shouldn't."
Kellyn Wilson
Ohio State University freshman
"And they shouldn't."
And they still Traditionally, young voters have been among the least likely Americans to vote. Exit polls from the 2000 election found that, of 48 million potential voters younger than 30, only about 18 million of them went to the polls. And in this year's Democratic primaries, widespread support on college campuses did not translate into victories for candidate Howard Dean
Candidates have made some attempts to reach out to college students and other young people. The Bush campaign has a Web log that includes "Barbara and Jenna's journal," detailing the president's daughters' campaign exploits. Democrat John Kerry, who made a campus tour last spring, recently appeared on Comedy Central's The Daily Show and was to appear last night on The Late Show with David Letterman.
The political parties, meanwhile, are using volunteers and paid canvassers to register young voters and get them to the polls. For instance, the College Republican National Committee has 60 field staffers and a multimillion-dollar budget dedicated to turning out young voters for the president in battleground states. The attempts can sometimes fall flat.
"Some of it feels very awkward to young people — like the candidates are trying too hard," says Jane Eisner, author of the new book Taking Back the Vote: Getting American Youth Involved in Our Democracy.
Other times, young people feel ignored, says Stephen Lucas, a high school junior in Leechburg, Pa.
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"I haven't heard any serious talk about college tuition, or even people our age mentioned," says Lucas, who works with a group called Freedom's Answer to get upperclassmen interested in voting.
It's still anybody's guess how many young people have registered in his state, another thought to be a toss-up. Michigan is one of the few that has compiled registration numbers by age.
Bush and Kerry set debate dates
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DERRY, N.H. — Negotiators for President Bush and Democrat John Kerry agreed yesterday to three 90-minute debates beginning Sept. 30, including one town-hall format with questions from undecided voters in the audience.
The two campaigns essentially went along with recommendations by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates — except that the topic for the first debate will be foreign policy and homeland security rather than the economy as the commission had suggested.
Details of the debates were announced by former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, the chief negotiator for Bush, and attorney Vernon Jordan for Kerry.
The final debate, which the commission had said should be about foreign policy, will now be about the economy.
The first debate will be Sept.
30 at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fla., the second one in a town-hall style format is at Washington University in St. Louis on Oct. 8, and the third at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz., on Oct. 13.
Both Bush and Kerry "are pleased with today's announcement and look forward to the debates," Baker and Jordan said in a joint statement yesterday. Details of the agreement were outlined in a 32-page document.
The two campaigns also agreed to the commission's selection of moderators: Jim Lehrer of PBS for the first, Charles Gibson of ABC for the second, Bob Schieffer of CBS for the third, and Gwen fill of PBS for the vice presidential debate.
for the vice president. The two sides agreed that the three presidential debates would just be between Bush and Kerry and not include any third-party candidates like Ralph Nader.
candidacy The two campaigns debated over the format of the town-hall style session in St. Louis.
With a guaranteed television audience of tens of millions of people, the debates could be pivotal given the closeness of the race.
National polls are mixed, with some showing a dead heat and others showing a modest lead for the president.
In a poll by the Pew Research Center, 29 percent of those surveyed said the debates would matter in deciding how they would vote. Some 68 percent said their minds were already made up.
Undecided voters could make a difference. According to a Nielsen survey, 46.6 million people watched the first debate between Bush and Al Gore in 2000.
The following debates drew audiences of 37.6 million, and 37.7 million, respectively.
37. 1 million In 2000, Bush and Democratic nominee Al Gore debated three times October. Their running mates debated once that month.
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