This Just In: More on the CBS News Scandal

Re “The Fault Does Lie in Our Stars,” editorial, Jan. 12: Ever wonder why middle America believes The Times has a warped perspective of our world? Dan Rather and CBS News did a bad thing. Period. Only the L.A. Times could serpentine from CBS’ mistakes to negative comments about Fox News and the White House.

CBS was wrong, but Fox News is more wrong, and the White House is most wrong -- seems to be a preadolescent value system based on schoolyard reasoning.

As usual, nothing the editor published was wrong per se. However, the creative energy expended by the editor in spinning the CBS story into an attack on Fox News and the Bush administration might be utilized better in Hollywood.

Mark R. Johnson

Burbank

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So CBS News has fired four employees following a “60 Minutes Wednesday” story about President Bush’s military service that relied on allegedly forged documents. However, there has been no conclusive proof that they were forgeries. Yet no journalists have been held accountable and lost their jobs for failing to scrutinize the fraudulent case for the Iraq war. No journalists have lost their jobs for the fabricated Jessica Lynch story. Not one politician has lost his job for misrepresenting the truth regarding the Iraq war or the false claims that Saddam Hussein could deploy weapons of mass destruction. Anyone see any inconsistencies here? When will our mainstream media and politicians be held to account?

Moira Govan

Gloucester, Britain