Posted on 01/20/2005 2:17:15 AM PST by kattracks
THREE CBS News execs who were asked to resign in the wake of the "Memogate" scandal still haven't done so.Former "60 Minutes Wednesday" executive producer Josh Howard, his deputy Mary Murphy and CBS News senior VP Betsy West still haven't given official notice to CBS — raising eyebrows and sparking talk they might be considering legal action.
CBS officials declined to comment yesterday, but CBS chief Les Moonves told reporters gathered in L.A. that Howard, Murphy and West have "not as yet" resigned.
"There are discussions going on with them," Moonves said — but stopped short of saying what action CBS would take if the trio refused to resign.
"I can't talk about that," he said. "Right now it's a legal issue, and I'm not allowed to talk about that."
CBS already fired producer Mary Mapes after an independent panel issued its report on the scandal — which centered around a "60 Minutes Wednesday" report that used unverifiable documents in a story on President George W. Bush's National Guard service.
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The liberals at CBS demand accountability of the White House but they don't practice what they preach in their own house. Typical stonewalling.
O.K..Les...have the in-house security walk up to their offices and hand each one a box and tell them....YOUR FIRED!...not that difficult.
Ah, Dan Rather, the gift that keeps on giving.
They're not VICTIMS.
They're PERPETRATORS.
The destruction continues.
Quote to Dan Rather: "The Devil damn thee black, thou cream faced loon."
Regards, See you all at the BALL!
Think of it in terms that these fools wanted President Bush to be the victim of these forged documents, but instead they themselves became the 'victims' of those very same documents.
< O.K..Les...have the in-house security walk up to their offices and hand each one a box and tell them....YOUR FIRED!...not that difficult. >
That works in my office.
From what I read elsewhere, I don't think they're allowed in the building. They may have contracts, so they can only be terminated for cause. Resigning would acknowledge that there is cause. They're just holding out for a settlement, i.e., cash.
They're PERPETRATORS.
The wink-nod socialists turning on their grunts sure captures the essence of that evil.
Is CBS still trying to find them jobs that meet their high-flying requirements? LOL. Good luck.
Whaddaya mean, victims?
Notice this usage? The proper term would be fraudulent documents, or fake documents. There is no question that they are fakes, but this writer can not bring themselves to say it.
Just go back to work like nothing has happened... in a meeting, ask your 'former' co-workers how their weekend was. Be positive!
If they lock you out of your 'old' office, find a air-duct to crawl through and gain entrance. Leave a message to the receptionist that you're in!
At the end of the day, invite everyone down to the closest 'waterhole' and buy them drinks... it was all just a joke!
Your right...Asking someone to resign does not have quite the same punch as "your fired".....
You know, if CBS paid them off, I wonder how that would look to a grand jury?
No honor among thieves, right?
What was CBS thinking? Did they not realize that it was going to cost them millions per scapegoat? The only one that was free was Mapes. That was easy.
It would have been cheaper for Moonves to fire Heywood.
Heard Schieffer on Hannity yesterday spinning the cBS thing. Didn't drop any bombshells. The most interesting thing he said was they he did not want to be anchor, and cBS was going to work to regain its credibility.
I don't understand this "asked to resign" nonsense. In any job I've ever held, if you didn't do your job well, you could be fired. Seems to me there was plenty that came out in this "investigation" of the Memogate scandal that showed these individuals (as well as others, IMO) did not perform their assigned duties very well. Contracts or not, it seems to a simple-minded person like me that there is cause to dismiss them. To heck with waiting for them to resign, just give them the boot.
If you're really serious about cleaning house and changing things, decisive, unambiguous actions must be taken. They got rid of Mapes and that was a good step. Now these others must be dumped. Asking someone to resign and then waiting around for them to do that or maybe not doesn't send a very clear signal that CBS is firm in it's determination to clean up their act. I didn't think they were in the first place, but this just reinforces that opinion.
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