Posted on 11/01/2005 5:18:01 PM PST by NewMediaFan
NEW YORK — The producer fired for her role in the discredited CBS News report about President George W. Bush's military service believes that CBS was more interested in protecting itself than finding out the truth behind her story.
In an excerpt from her upcoming book, Mary Mapes wrote that "no one was happier" than executives at CBS owner Viacom to receive an independent panel's condemnation of her and three colleagues for their role in the September 2004 story on 60 Minutes II.
Mapes contended that CBS and Viacom, which actively lobby in Washington on media ownership and decency standards, did not want an angry Bush administration making vindictive decisions that would cost them money.
The panel's examination of the report "read more like a prosecutorial brief than an independent investigation," Mapes wrote in the excerpt, published Monday by Vanity Fair magazine.
"Now (Viacom executives) could present themselves to the Bush administration as victims of irresponsible, out-of-control journalists, not as an operation that was actually doing some tough reporting," she wrote....
(Excerpt) Read more at ctv.ca ...
She has snapped and is delusional.
Delusional b**** was my immediate reaction.
She got off light.
Busted Libs play the McCarthy card like race pimps play the race card.
Another mind-spun lib who is totally out of touch with reality and truth.
Having her on the outside pissing in will cause much embarrassment to the NYTimes. Watching her and the Times fighting each other in public is just too delicious.
Popcorn time.
This group gets funnier all of the time. Nothing is ever their fault, it is always some kind of conspiracy against them!
The problem for them is that those productions are only interesting to their base.
"Busted Libs play the McCarthy card like race pimps play the race card"
What's most humorous is the fact that if you read the whole record on Joe McCarthy, he turned out to be right on most of his charges.
Sorry!
No, Mary, it wasn't tough reporting. It was faking a story to try and frame the president.
The woman is lucky she wasnt bought up on charges for forging military documents.
Moonbat One to Moonbat Five. Calling Dr. Rove and the Moonbat Weather Changin' Machine.
Thats so true. Anyone who ever read the Venona papers would know that.
They may be trying to take advantage of the Murrow film but Murrow himself would be appalled by today's news and would have shown Rather the door himself had he still be alive.
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