Saturday, September 25, 2004
CBS and the Memogate Investigation
CBS is starting to circle the wagons...gonna be interesting who gets left outside...Mapes for sure...but is the Dan going to be in or out? LA Times (registration required) has run this story:
When CBS News named its panel of two independent investigators to examine the problems with its report on President Bush's Texas Air National Guard service, anchor Dan Rather learned their names on the same morning as everyone else.
It was an uncharacteristic slight given the deference with which Rather, CBS News' marquee asset for two decades, was usually treated. But it may be emblematic of the every-person-for-himself atmosphere that has engulfed the news division since Monday, when the network admitted what many outside CBS had believed: that the 1970s documents on which it based the Sept. 8 report had authenticity problems.
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When CBS News named its panel of two independent investigators to examine the problems with its report on President Bush's Texas Air National Guard service, anchor Dan Rather learned their names on the same morning as everyone else.
It was an uncharacteristic slight given the deference with which Rather, CBS News' marquee asset for two decades, was usually treated. But it may be emblematic of the every-person-for-himself atmosphere that has engulfed the news division since Monday, when the network admitted what many outside CBS had believed: that the 1970s documents on which it based the Sept. 8 report had authenticity problems.
Read the rest of it here.
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