CBS News anchor Dan Rather apologizes for airing forged documents that challenged President Bush's National Guard service. The documents were not examined and authenticated as a CBS source had requested. NPR's Tavis Smiley looks at how the 60 Minutes story became the story. Hear Smiley and Kenneth Cooper, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and national editor of The Boston Globe, Susan Herbst, a professor of political science and liberal arts dean at Temple University, and Bryan Keefer, assistant managing editor of the campaign desk at the Columbia Journalism Review.
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