] The journalistic juggling at CBS provides an ironic
] counterpoint to the furor over apparently bogus documents
] involving Bush's National Guard service. One
] unexpected consequence of the network's decision was
] to wipe out a chance -- at least for the
] moment -- for greater public scrutiny of a more
] consequential forgery that played a role in building the
] Bush administration's case to invade Iraq.

[ And after the fiasco, CBS may as well not bother. They're the boy who cried wolf now, and pretty much everything they say is gonna be ignored. They may as well sit out the next couple of months. Too bad. Maybe it'll end up smacking some reporters into shape though, if there's any good to come of this, that's it. -k]