Posted on 02/28/2005 3:21:39 PM PST by SmithL
ew York (AP) --
The top CBS News executive asked to resign for her role in the network's discredited report on President Bush's military service has quit, CBS said on Monday.
Betsy West, formerly senior vice president of prime time for CBS News, resigned nearly two months after being asked to.
"I am proud of my 25-year career in television and of my track record at CBS News, and I am looking forward to the next chapter of my professional life," West said.
Neither West's spokesman, Tom Goodman, nor CBS News would discuss whether the two parties had reached a settlement or why it took so long for her to quit.
CBS fired the report's producer, Mary Mapes. Besides West, the network had asked for the resignations of "60 Minutes Wednesday" executive producer Josh Howard and his top deputy, Mary Murphy. Murphy resigned Friday; Howard remains a CBS News employee.
Two days after last September's report on Bush had aired, CBS News President Andrew Heyward ordered West to review the opinions of document experts and confidential sources who had supported the story. But no investigation was done, said the independent panel chaired by former Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and retired Associated Press President Louis D. Boccardi.
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and the bodies keep falling but not Dan Blather's ..... YET!
LOL (...he laughs, cynically).
Meanwhile, Andrew Heyward continues to live the high life as Admiral of the See-BS News Fleet, not at all worried about the gigantic gash in the hull resulting from Cap'n Rather's encounter with the iceberg named 'Buckhead'. Cap'n Rather has been busy lately, being sure his lifeboat is well stocked with accolades and other written and verbal delicacies as he prepares to sail off into the sunset, and the somewhat nervous Lieutenant Schieffer is wondering what in Hell he's going to do up on the bridge when the rest of the ship is wallowing away, threatening to roll over at any moment.
God, I'm lovin' this. :)
and the bodies keep falling but not Dan Blather's ..... YET!
I think we can safely say that Blather's body may not have fallen, but it's not moveable.
C'mon, we all know that GW fired her .... and what took him so long ;-?
DEPUTY????TOP DEPUTY??? Executive producer's have TOP DEPUTIES?? weird title.
Sounds like everyone was paid handsomely and Josh Howard's price hasn't been met yet.
LOL!! Your picture is much better than my "Buggy Whip Media" line!
Whore comes to mind.
The article says that Tom Goodman is West's spokesman, but I suspect that most likely part of the agreement she reached with CBS was a) she gives up her right to sue; and b) she agrees never to talk about Rathergate to anybody.
In other words, most likely Goodman is a designated PR person working for CBS rather than West, and making sure that West says nothing foolish or embarrassing to the press.
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