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BostonHerald.com - the Edge: Taken at (type)face value, memos provide a font of info

Taken at (type)face value, memos provide a font of info
By Stephanie Schorow
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
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Typegate hit the blogosphere like Ivan crashing into Louisiana and took down the house that Dan Rather built.

Typegate is Divaspeak for the uproar over memos aired on "60 Minutes II'' that purported to show President George W. Bush shirked his National Guard duty in the 1970s.

A good place to start is Font Wars, found at . Blogger Jules Siegel -- a self-described "Yellow Dog Democrat'' who thinks the memos are faked -- is beside himself with glee that so much attention is being focused on typography.

His site examines the documents from all angles with good links to other sources. "How bad can an election be when typography is a national issue. My faith in the utter absurdity of human nature is restored,'' he writes.

[Someone on freerepublic.com noted that the URL error is so "Old Media." In other news, Jules Siegel and Font War are mentioned on freerepublic.com.]

Posted by jules_siegel at September 22, 2004 01:10 PM