CBS Recruiting Anti-War Bloggers to 'Talk Up' Army Deserter Story?

Kind of ironic since Bloggers brought Dad Rather down and discredited CBS.

Ratherbiased has the story.

The owner of Nonviolence.org, Martin Kelley, said he got an interesting phone call yesterday from a CBS News publicist for--you guessed it--Dan Rather's "60 Minutes Wednesday", the same program that carried the infamous bogus memos.

"Yesterday I got a call from a publicist for CBS News's 60 Minutes. They're running a story tonight on 'Deserters,' U.S. military personnel who have fled to Canada rather than serve in Iraq. She was requesting that I talk up the program on Nonviolence. In nine years of publishing the peace site, I can't remember ever getting a call from a publicist before. I've talked to reporters from major news networks and papers, and I've talked a booking agent or two to arranging appearances on radio shows, but never a publicist."

Wonder why they thought they had to bother? It just shows how little CBS and MSM understand bloggers.

UPDATE CBS seems to think "Internet blogs are providing a new and unregulated medium for politically motivated attacks."

And CBS wants to be at the fore front of those "politically motivated attacks".
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