Four CBS Employees Ousted for 'Memogate'

FOX News ^ | January 10, 2005

[Kaslin]

NEW YORK — Four CBS News employees, including three executives, have been let go for their role in preparing and reporting the controversial "60 Minutes" story about President Bush’s National Guard service before last year’s elections, according to CBS.

[ConservativeMan55]

Hahahaha.

[Just mythoughts]

We the American people should file a class action lawsuit against seeBS for damages.

[RippleFire]

"Asked to resign were Senior Vice President Betsy West, who supervised CBS News primetime programs; "60 Minutes Wednesday" Executive Producer Josh Howard; Howard's deputy, Senior Broadcast Producer Mary Murphy. The producer of the piece, Mary Mapes, was terminated.

In its report, the panel concluded that the network news organization failed to follow basic journalistic principles in preparing, reporting and following the story."

[Revelation 911]

buh bye

buh bye

buh bye

[Preachin']

Asked to resign?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Nice.

[lawdude]

"Nobody was driving, Officer! We were all in the back seat singing!"

[SuthrnGirl]

well Rather, who was so hot to trot on this story and to this day, says its true except for the fake memos, didnt even get touched AND will still be doing news even after he retires....pU

[Carry_Okie]

Not enough.

[Choose Ye This Day]

Good reading here. The long-awaited "report" of CBS's stupidity:

http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/cbs_report.pdf

[Choose Ye This Day]

Bye, Mary.

[bboop]

Oooooh - Pajama Patrol badge is nice. That would make a nice tshirt/ bumpersticker, no??

[jriemer]

[Choose Ye This Day]

The Panel has not been able to conclude with absolute certainty whether the Killian documents are authentic or forgeries. However, the Panel has identified a number of issues that raise serious questions about the authenticity of the documents and their content.

What more do they NEED?

[Choose Ye This Day]

These problems were caused primarily by a myopic zeal to be the first news organization to broadcast what was believed to be a new story about President Bush’s TexANG service, and the rigid and blind defense of the Segment after it aired despite numerous indications of its shortcomings.

Talk is cheap, especially AFTER the election.

[blackdog]

Me thinks some very bitter employees may have a lot to say about Dan Rather and the news creation departments at CBS.

[Proud2BeRight]

Headline: Four new names of unemployed leftists have been added for potential DNC Chair.

[Choose Ye This Day]

One of the boo-boos they're admitting:

The telephone call prior to the Segment’s airing by the producer of the Segment to a senior campaign official of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry - a clear conflict of interest - that created the appearance of a political bias.

No this didn't CREATE and APPEARANCE of political bias. The bias already existed. This was just one more example that confirmed it.

[blackdog]

The Kerry camp and Joe Lockhart are specifically mentioned as part of the problem..........Hmmmmmm! Like we didn't know that?