buh bye
buh bye
Posted on 01/10/2005 7:45:09 AM PST by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Hahahaha.
We the American people should file a class action lawsuit against seeBS for damages.
"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."
buh bye
buh bye
Asked to resign?
Nice.
"Nobody was driving, Officer! We were all in the back seat singing!"
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
Good reading here. The long-awaited "report" of CBS's stupidity:
http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/cbs_report.pdf
Bye, Mary.
Oooooh - Pajama Patrol badge is nice. That would make a nice tshirt/ bumpersticker, no??
What more do they NEED?
Talk is cheap, especially AFTER the election.
Me thinks some very bitter employees may have a lot to say about Dan Rather and the news creation departments at CBS.
Headline: Four new names of unemployed leftists have been added for potential DNC Chair.
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.
The Kerry camp and Joe Lockhart are specifically mentioned as part of the problem..........Hmmmmmm! Like we didn't know that?
Myopic zeal--so, the CBS "eye" is near-sighted! (read:
CBiaSed News)
Pass the blame.
Now how's about the panel doing this investigation decides to do some retroactive QC on a few dozen previous segments on 60 minutes?
No sweat...Kinko's is hiring!
HOW MUCH DID THEY GET PAID to keep their mouths shut? That's the real story. SeeBS wants no more problems from this gang of four.
The Panel does not find a basis to accuse those who investigated, produced, vetted or aired the Segment of having a political bias. The Panel does note, however, that on such a politically charged story, coming in the midst of a presidential campaign in which military service records had become an issue, there was a need for meticulous care to avoid any suggestion of an agenda at work. The Panel does not believe that the appropriate level of care to avoid the appearance of political motivation was used in connection with this story.
Nothing to see here. Move along. CBiaS.
They knew ... I still need to read the whole report ... but, sounds like they are sugar coating it
WHO prepared the fake documents?
This was an "investigation"?
CBS needs a panel to decide who to fire?
Again, WHO instigated these fakes?
Good grief. You were WILLING ACCOMPLICES! "The Panel" is a bunch of butt-covering dissemblers.
Big time.
I disagree, its a modern bitch slapping, allowing for what the panel could "prove". I think this is highly embarrasing for CBS. I believe, unlike those who think that short of Dan Rather being fired, anything else is a whitewash, that this is a major victory for us.
I see Heyward's staying put.
Oh. Well, that's that. We can take Dan's word for it.
Does anyone have the pic of Havana Dan and Fidel?
I do hope some of those who are asked to resign will stand up and speak up. They need to speak to Bernie Goldberg after they get really pissed. I am very dissappointed in Dick Thornburg. He is a decent man, but his decency led him to be timid in properly assigning responsibility for these series of attacks meant to overthrow an election and a sitting president. The fact that Rather has resigned should have lent the air of freedom to tell it like it was. But Thornburg failed in doing this. Once again the lower level grunts take it in the neck while the leadership of CBS goes without accounablity. Rather should have been shown as the naked partisan that he is, and fired despite the fact he has resigned. So, nothing has changed. There are a million Mary Mapes, as despicable as she is, to take her place and continue the war through the media on decency and American idealism. This is simply a facade to obscure what we here at Free Republic know to be true.
Alright rack it
If Dan Rather had any digntiy he should resign and not let women take the blame tell me alot about Dan
He is sexist coward
Does it hurt more to be "terminated" rather than "asked to resign?"
The German connection!
I also remember that at the time, Rather's daughter was involved in the mechanics of this story. Funny how Rather's daughter is not being fired from CBS or if she is a contractor to them as an independant, why they do not sue her for harm to CBS.
Yep.
Now that the sham "investigation" is over, we should demand a real investigation -- lest CBS never sees another avertising dollar.
Interesting in light of this little gem from the Fox piece: [emphasis added]
CBS News President Andrew Heyward on Sept. 10 ordered West, one of the ousted executives, to investigate and review the opinions of document experts who had seen the disputed memos and unnamed sources that formed the basis for the Bush National Guard story.
That investigation never happened, the panel's report said.
That Heyward let West skate so long on such blatant insubordination is in itself troubling ... unless Heyward never intended for the documents to be authenticated and his Sept. 10th "order" was just so much window dressing.
Another great graphic. Thanks.
This is cool, but since Rather wasn't fired I'll never watch cBS again.
Well, at least CBS thoroughly investigated their "evidence."
Some FReepers wanted a more critical report, but do not despair.
It's Martin Luther time all over again, and someone had just nailed this report to the network door.
Do not despair, any of us. Some of us wanted more. By practical, network and legal standards, this report is far from a whitewash. It is damning. There has been nothing like this before. In 30 years of TV, I have never seen anything like it.
For an industry that ALWAYS tries to stand behind their work, truthful or not, this is a stake in the heart. The Peter Arnett/CNN "Tailwind" report was bad enough, but this is worse. CBS is the "Tiffany Network," and involves their biggest "News Star." Dan was the brand at CBS, and the brand has been found to be rotten.
Look at the facts. We cannot PROVE the documents were fake. One cannot prove a negative. It doesn't matter here because the overwhelming preponderance of evidence demonstrates that they are forgeries, and everyone knows it. That is enough, because it is not our duty to prove them false. It was the duty of CBS to prove them genuine. They have not accomplished 1% of that task, and the report specifies how they did not.
Senior heads rolled. The one that will make the most impact is not Rather, (everyone knows he was over the hill) but rather Betsy West. She was "golden." Now she is gone.
It goes further. It states that because Rather voluntarily moved up his retirement date, "no further action is necessary." Between the lines, the words "Dan quit so we don't have to fire him" jump off the page.
This is a huge victory.
This says, not to FReepers, but to the soccer moms and their families that they cannot trust CBS News. We already knew that, but that is not what's important here.
This report will be the core materiel in every journalism class for decades to come.
It will be the core support materiel for our side everytime someone attacks Sinclair or Fox.
It will become the core of the case when local groups challenge the relicensing of TV stations that no longer serve the needs of or reflect the values of the communities they are licensed to serve.
It will be the document lawyers use in libel, slander, and false light cases to show a pattern of behavior.
Every ABC and NBC salesman will have a copy in their briefcase whenever they are selling commercial time against "CBS Evening News." Ratings will decline further.
My guess: long term cost to CBS? 80-150 million $.
It's Martin Luther time all over again, and someone had just nailed this report to the newsroom door.
To give you an idea of how this is being received, spoke to 3 former CBS colleagues this morning. The word "sh*t" was in each of their opening sentences to me.
There will be major, longterm fallout over this.
We are winning.
SSDD as long as Heyward's still there...
Has anyone been to DU? They're still claiming the memos were real.
Rather is still hiding behind his image, tarnished (corroded more like it) though it is.
Talking now about the Swifties.
[E]very single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman. In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts. The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90’s. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn’t used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80’s used monospaced fonts. I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old.85
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