Re: [A-List] The Poison Pill

[Cian <cian_oconnor@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've not been following the story particularly
closely, but a lot of the "discrediting" of the story
has been totally specious. I have some experience of
typesetting (my father has a lot, and I know a couple
of font designers), so I had a vague technical
interest. As a political story... well, I'm sure I
don't need to point out its irrelevance as anything
other than spin control.

However, we have "Experts" seemingly unaware of when
Times New Roman was created. Typewriter "experts" who
seemingly are unaware of the fact that there were two
widely used typewriters of the era capable of
producing the right kind of copy. And the "comparison"
which kicked the whole thing off was ludicrous. It
should have been laughed at. A comparison using the
methadology used is utterly meaningless (especially if
they documents have been scanned, photocopied, etc).
These things might be forgeries (the misuse of
military anacronyms, and wrong signature being the
suspicious things - though there may be explainations
for both these things - nobody seems terribly
interested in finding out), and the poison pill thing
seems perfectly plausible, but I suspect that they
were created on the right equipment, from the right
era. So ironically what convinced the press that they
are forgeries is completely specious. If the documents
had been utterly genuine, they would still have been
"discredited". Whereas with the Swift Boats controversy...


	
	
		
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