CBS Cleans House In Wake of Erroneous Story

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday January 10, 2005 @04:35PM from the fake-but-accurate dept.

An independent review panel gave CBS News a scathing rebuke for its story last fall about President Bush's national guard service. The report noted that in a story that was neither fair nor accurate, and did a "disservice" to the American public, the CBS News staff had a "myopic zeal" to get the story first and gave a "rigid and blind defense" after it aired. The story's producer, Mary Mapes, was fired. Three other executives were asked to resign. The network, noting that he was scheduled for retirement from CBS Evening News in a couple of months, recommended no action be taken against Dan Rather.

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Great! by maskedbishounen · 2005-01-10 16:49 · Score: 3, Funny

Now when is /. going to start doing the same?

Proudly awaiting my flamebait mods. :)

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Dan Rather moving to other things. by AtariAmarok · 2005-01-11 01:02 · Score: 4, Funny

In the wake of these troubles, Dan Rather plans to turn to other matters after he retires in March. According to unnamed sources, Rather claims to have located Jack Ruby's Blackberry. He is going to use the information in it to reveal amazing breaththroughs in the JFK assassination.

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