How did blogs affect Dan Rather?
Dan Rather presented '60 Minute Wednesday' with a controversial topic about President George Bush. The programme talked about Bush failing to fulfil obligations while he was in the National Guard.
When the programme aired in 8th September 2004, a group of bloggers wrote on a thread saying that the memos used in the programme were fake. Investigations took place and the memos were found to be fake.
This cost Dan Rather his job as anchor on CBS, as he was forced into early retirement.
Even though the bloggers were right-wing supporters, they still uncovered poor journalism, which is a good thing. If this poor journalism hadn't been investigated, then it could have turned the presidential election around.
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