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To: staticmh

critical exerpt below:

"Lockhart, the former press secretary to President Clinton, said a female producer talked to him about the 60 Minutes program a few days before it aired on Sept. 8. She gave Lockhart a telephone number and asked him to call Bill Burkett, a former Texas National Guard officer who gave CBS the documents. Lockhart couldn't recall the producer's name. But CBS said Monday night that it would examine the role of producer Mary Mapes in passing the name to Lockhart.

Burkett told USA TODAY that he had agreed to turn over the documents to CBS if the network would help arrange a conversation with the Kerry campaign.

The network's effort to place Burkett in contact with a top Democratic official raises ethical questions about CBS' handling of material potentially damaging to the Republican president in the midst of an election. This "poses a real danger to the potential credibility of a news organization," said Aly Colón, a news ethicist at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies.

"At Burkett's request, we gave his (telephone) number to the campaign," said Betsy West, senior CBS News vice president.


81 posted on 09/20/2004 7:27:13 PM PDT by staticmh
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To: staticmh

Looks like Burkett is going to throw them under the bus! Oh well, lie down with dogs...


88 posted on 09/20/2004 7:27:55 PM PDT by CaptRon (Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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To: staticmh

And there it is! Proof positive,proof beyond a doubt,proof hoisting so many on their own petards! :-)


139 posted on 09/20/2004 7:34:58 PM PDT by nopardons (The pajamaless warrior)
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