CBS recently ran a story about how worried some people are that the U.S. might reinstate a draft. According to the story, much of that worry was built around a series of e-mails that claim there's a secret plan to bring back the draft.
Even before the story aired, these e-mails had been debunked.
In a subsequent interview with InDC Journal, the lead CBS reporter of the story said
The fact is, they were going around. I know several people that got them, and it’s gotten people all riled up. Whether or not there’s any reality to there being a draft, is almost besides the point.
Okay. Great. Now CBS has become that annoying friend or colleague you know who is constantly forwarding the latest urban myth e-mail to everyone in his address book.
What's next, CBS? A story on how air travelers should fear being drugged and having their kidneys removed? That grocery shoppers should be wary of flesh eating bananas?
Why does anyone still watch this network?
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