A local radio host, Mark Belling (who's also an occasional substitute host for Rush Limbaugh) says that when reading a story from Old Media, you always should read the second- or third-to-last paragraph, because that's where the real lede will be buried.
I think he's right. Here's the third-to-last paragraph in an AP story on Rathergate, as linked on Drudge today:
CBS said Burkett acknowledged he provided the documents and said he deliberately misled a CBS producer, giving her a false account of their origin to protect a promise of confidentiality to a source.If he's really protecting the confidentiality of a source, who could that be? Could it be, as has been rumored, someone from the Kerry campaign? Or did Burkett give the documents to the campaign? Whether or not the Kerry campaign was involved at all, we still need to know 1) who created those documents and 2) what's going to happen to Dan Rather.
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