CBS ALERT: CBS News Roiling, 60 Minutes Four Refuse to Yield

NEW YORK OBSERVER ^ | January 19, 2005 | Joe Hagan

[indcons]

More than a week after CBS News released its ostensibly final, tortured, novella-length report on the suspicious-document scandal at 60 Minutes Wednesday, some basic matters in the case are even less settled than before—starting with the fate of the four employees the network singled out for dismissal on Jan. 10.

Producer Mary Mapes, who was fired, has released a statement saying that she had done nothing wrong in preparing the Sept. 8, 2004, report or in the aftermath. And the three staffers who CBS asked to resign—executive producer Josh Howard, his top deputy Mary Murphy, and CBS News senior vice president Betsy West—have declined to actually tender their resignations.

The trio has remained silent, but all three are consulting with lawyers about the possibility of bringing legal action against CBS News.

[Calpernia]

bump

[GSlob]

Could not have happened in a more deserving organization.

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

To quote Snoopy:

It was a dark and stormy night. A shot rang out. A maid screamed.

"I love it when the plot thickens".

[what's up]

It's great to see the Great Communist Network now rolling in the dust.

They did great damage over the decades. It's now time for them to get justice.

[phoenix0468]

"And those who know Ms. West, Mr. Howard and Ms. Murphy said that they have an uneasy choice to make between fighting for their own professional reputations—by expanding on those missing links and possibly trying to bring top executives down with them—or peaceably drawing the best possible severance package from the company."

I hoping they fight for their reputations. It would be easier to beat them on that one.

[indcons]

LOL :)

[Moonman62]

Perhaps they were just doing what Dan wanted them to do. Who will be the first to rat him out?

[fire_eye]

Attention CBS: Nobody out here gives a schumer about your "Internal Investigation" and your "Credibility" and your "Agony" and your etc. etc.

We just want to know who did it.

In fact, if any of you had an IQ larger than your shoe size, you could have avoided ALL of this trouble by just calling the FBI at the first sign of trouble and telling them you wanted to know Who Did It.

You're still dancing around the issue, CBS.

WHO DID IT, CBS???

[spyone]

Love to see this go to court. The discovery process would be wonderful. CBS would have to disclose alot more...showing bias, proving the documents were forgeries, etc.

[Quinotto]

The trio has remained silent, but all three are consulting with lawyers about the possibility of bringing legal action against CBS News. Liars getting ready to sue other liars. Who cares, let them devour their own, they all deserve it.

[gortklattu]

they took their lessons from Bill Clinton.

[Lancey Howard]

WOW!!!
This is a great piece of analysis.

[judywillow]

Assholes do not take falls for other assholes. This is gonna get REAL ugly, real soon.

[Darkwolf377]

Danny seemed to know that the Abu Grahbe (sp) abuses can all be traced to George Bush. I guess CBS is just a collection of loose cannons all doing what they please, though.

[Lancey Howard]

This article raises some serious questions about why Heyward was not fired. I don't blame the scumbag scapegoats for trying to extort more cash from the network.

[eclectic]

Hang on, boy and girls!

[Mike Darancette]

The game is afoot. A nice civil suit with depositions and such will start the information flowing.

[McGavin999]

LOL, they don't even have enough shame to quit when given the opportunity. Fine, terminate them.

[Ichneumon]

"And those who know Ms. West, Mr. Howard and Ms. Murphy said that they have an uneasy choice to make between fighting for their own professional reputations—by expanding on those missing links and possibly trying to bring top executives down with them

Yeah baby!