{"id":178,"date":"2004-09-12T20:53:40","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T01:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=178"},"modified":"2004-09-12T20:54:02","modified_gmt":"2004-09-13T01:54:02","slug":"another-expert-weighs-in-on-the-forgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"Another Expert Weighs in on the Forgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/littlegreenfootballs.com\/weblog\/\">LGF<\/a> for this tidbit by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flounder.com\/bush.htm\">Joseph M. Newcomer<\/a>, a self-described pioneer of electronic typesetting with a long list of credentials.  He opens with this broadside:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There has been a lot of activity on the Internet recently concerning the forged CBS documents. I do not even dignify this statement with the traditional weasel-word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153alleged\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, because it takes approximately 30 seconds for anyone who is knowledgeable in the history of electronic document production to recognize this whole collection is certainly a forgery, and approximately five minutes to prove to anyone technically competent that the documents are a forgery. I was able to replicate two of the documents within a few minutes. At time I a writing this, CBS is stonewalling. They were hoaxed, pure and simple.  CBS failed to exercise anything even approximately like due diligence. I am not sure what sort of &#8220;expert&#8221; they called in to authenticate the document, but anything I say about his qualifications to judge digital typography is likely to be considered libelous (no matter how true they are) and I would not say them in print in a public forum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Newcomer then proceeds, at length and with graphic examples, to dissect and destroy CBS&#8217;s defense against the MS Word argument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hat tip to LGF for this tidbit by Joseph M. Newcomer, a self-described pioneer of electronic typesetting with a long list of credentials. He opens with this broadside: There has been a lot of activity on the Internet recently concerning the forged CBS documents. I do not even dignify this statement with the traditional weasel-word [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogosphere","category-election-04","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}