The greatest media scandals of this decade have been Rathergate and the smearing of the Swift Boat Veterans. In each case mainstream media organizations failed to accept responsibility for false reporting. History will prove unkind to the media companies and their leaders who failed in the most basic duties of their charter.

Bruce Kesler, who knows more about the SwiftBoatVets than anyone else in the blogosphere, has pointed us to To Set The Record Straight: How Swift Boat Veterans, POWs and the New Media Defeated John Kerry by Scott Swett and Tim Ziegler, which outlines the basis for the media’s disgrace. John O’Neill wrote the foreword.

John Kerry’s sad life of tall tales should have unravelled after he was caught spending Christmas in Cambodia, but of course that did not happen, since the media took his side against the SwiftBoatVets. No doubt coming generations will write a more correct and definitive history. We’re looking forward to reading this first draft of that history.

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