Res Publica 2005

The Fallout From Memogate

Earlier, we gave you the internet's reaction to the CBS semi-apology, now, RatherBiased.com is looking how a few of America's newspapers are responding and reporting on the CBS documents kerfuffle.

• The New York Times, always the paper with the best network contacts, further confirms that Memogate producer Mary Mapes has become the sacrificial lamb. But not every CBSer is happy about that, Jim Rutenberg and Bill Carter report; some employees believe more important heads need to roll. They also talked with a former colleague of Mapes's, a conservative radio talker who used to work with her, who recalls the CBS producer as being "ardently liberal."

  Elsewhere in the Times, Kate Zernike reports on the immediate role-reversal that ensued after former Clinton pressec Joe Lockhart admitted that he was asked by CBS to contact its primary document source, Bill Burkett. Prior to that, the Bush people didn't want to talk much about Memogate while the Kerry folk were pumping up the National Guard story.

# posted by Knitting a Conundrum @ 10:44 AM