There’s been no shortage of discussion regarding the apparent forged documents that 60 minutes used last week on a Bush National Guard Story. Jay Rosen has written a “stark message” for legacy media here.
I lived in San Francisco during the 1989 “pretty big one”, the Loma Prieta earthquake. I remember reading about this, and frankly feeling repulsed at the image of a Rather in a limo next to the flattened I-880 expressway stating this:

Some time after dark, a long white stretch limo pulled up beside the remaining structure in West Oakland. The back door opened and Dan Rather got out. He pulled down his tie, rolled up his sleeves, mussed his hair a bit so it might look as if he?d actually been somewhere doing something, looked into the camera and said, ?We?re here in San Francisco, where the freeway ??

When, in fact, he was in Oakland….