CBS officially
doesn't care that one of its contributors is a liar; they say they hired him because a rival network hired Glenn Beck, so I guess they decided they needed a fool of their own. This is the kind of thing that makes it a little hard to take seriously the notion that the news biz was all about the unadorned pursuit of truth until bloggers ruined everything.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/05/msm-rules/42586/