CBS Owes Ed Bradley an Apology

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CBS still owes Bradley a belated apology stemming from its shameful decision during the 2004 presidential campaign to pointedly refuse to run a factually solid story of his that chronicled how the Bush administration had misled the country into war. Specifically, the Bradley story detailed the murky circumstances surrounding bogus Nigerien documents unearthed in 2002 that purported to prove that Saddam Hussein had purchased 500 tons of so-called yellowcake uranium to build a nuclear bomb.

Spooked at the time by the controversy raging over CBS' botched 60 Minutes II report on Bush and the National Guard, CBS completely abdicated its news responsibility and announced that it would be "inappropriate" to air Bradley's hard-hitting report.

Read the full Media Matters column here.