Slate's Press Box: The CBS 'Memogate' Apology

By Noah Adams

Published September 20, 2004 at 11:00 PM CDT

CBS News admitted it can't verify the authenticity of memos about President Bush's National Guard service featured in a recent 60 Minutes investigation. NPR's Noah Adams talks with Slate media critic Jack Shafer about the CBS apology, and what it says about the current state of network television news.

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Noah Adams

Noah Adams, long-time co-host of NPR's All Things Considered, brings more than three decades of radio experience to his current job as a contributing correspondent for NPR's National Desk., focusing on the low-wage workforce, farm issues, and the Katrina aftermath. Now based in Ohio, he travels extensively for his reporting assignments, a position he's held since 2003.

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