This is troubling. Seems the women will have to take the fall for these 'seasoned' news men that should have known better.
Where's NOW when you need them? Oh, I forgot Clinton showed them to be frauds during his administration.
She won't be taking the fall; she is even more guilty than Rather is. Producers do most of the real leg work putting together TV news stories, particularly on magazine shows like "60 Minutes." The anchors and reporters are sometimes brought in only to do the on-camera stuff after the producer has already put the rest of the piece together.
(Of course, in this particular case, it's obvious Rather was far more involved than merely sitting down to do voiceovers written by somebody else; I'm just saying that at best, the actual work of creating a TV news package is shared by the on-air guy and the behind-the-scenes producer. No producer, no story. By the way, when Peter Arnett was fired from CNN for the fraudulent Tailwind story, his so-called defense was "They just brought me in to appear on camera as the front man!")
This is not to say that men like Rather, Heyward et al do not also deserve to be fired, just that Mapes isn't going to be a scapegoat. She did it.