TIME on NEWSWEEK:

Newsweek wasn’t the only media outlet feeling the heat. By inevitable extension, journalism in general was back under a shadow, its reputation already scuffed by a series of incidents, including the Jayson Blair debacle at the New York Times, the fall of Jack Kelley at USA Today, the dubious National Guard memos at CBS, Newsweek’s use of a doctored photo of Martha Stewart on its cover, and CNN and TIME’s 1998 retraction of the “Tailwind” story that claimed the U.S. had used nerve gas during a 1970 commando mission in Laos.

We understand the distinction TIME is drawing; therefore Deep Qa Qaa and SwiftBoatVets are not on the list. But “dubious” National Guard memos? It really frosts us that those cheap and obvious fakes are forever going to be accorded weasel-words because of the terminally wimpy Dick Thornburgh and Louis Boccardi.

UPDATE

This ridiculous theme, that Bill Burkett’s dopey memos haven’t been proven to be frauds, and that Eason Jordan resigned for nothing, is repeated in journalism professor Chris Hanson’s piece in the WaPo today, a tribute to the things you miss if you are not paying attention to details. Go to Powerline for a too-polite rebuttal.

Ace is rather more direct.

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