CBS News Producer Fired In Memogate Will Shop Her Book

NY OBSERVER ^ | 03/02/05 | Joe Hagan

[BCrago66]

I'm no fan of Mapes, but I'm happy she's not allowing herself to be the fall-girl for Dan Rather.

[Chuck54]

"Ms. Mapes’ book proposal will include 40 pages of analysis and documentation that she offered to the panel to back up the documents’ authenticity."

This book will not sell. If she wants a best-seller, tell the truth behind the memos and I will buy an advance copy. Will these people ever learn? Probably not!

[Howlin]

She's not the fall girl; she IS the liar.

[Drango]

Amazon and Barnes & Noble will have to decide, will the book sell in the fiction or nonfiction area?

[Howlin]

"VIACOM/CBS did absolutely nothing to defend me, though that was a part of my agreement with them," wrote Mr. Burkett in an e-mail

Interesting that the thought IN ADVANCE he would need defending.

[Sloth]

Ms. Mapes avoids direct discussion of fonts and character spacing.

What a shock!

[quark]

Working title: "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?"

[Eric in the Ozarks]

How about, "Land of a Thousand Dances" ?

[Carolinamom]

Mapes is even dimmer than I thought if she still thinks those documents were real.

[Wristpin]

"Ms. Mapes avoids direct discussion of fonts and character spacing."

I'm sure she'll glide right over the fact that the Presedent had nearly 700 flight hours in the F-102. A aircraft with triple the mishap rate of todays fighters.

She probably also won't mention that he had already transferrred to a non flying billet in Alabama so the flight physical wasn't necessary anyway.

Has John effin Kerry released his service record by the way?

[dead]

She claiming that she typed this book in 1973.

[San Jacinto]

The independent panel that investigated the segment for CBS did not reach a verdict on those memos

What a joke.

[San Jacinto]

Are you kidding?

She is defending rather to the hilt with her obviously intentional lies that the memos are "real".

[mewzilla]

I wonder if a Viacom-owned imprint will publish the book. Mapes could get quite a good deal in exchange for promising not to tell everything she knows....

[Semper Paratus]

Dan Rather said "If she writes her book I would like to be the one that fact checks it."

[deport]

Mapes is even dimmer than I thought if she still thinks those documents were real.

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lol....... Heck they were real.... just not authentic

The hamburger stand mentioned in the article has a statue of Lenin out front or did which the original owner Harvey Gough purchased in 1992 that he added a placard to that said.... 'American Won'

[beyond the sea]

Executive producer Josh Howard still refuses to resign.

THIS guy (Josh Howard) will have something to say about Dan Rather's input on the initial report on ''60Minutes - Wednesday'. Josh will spill the beans....... I am "relatively" sure of that.

Sorry for the "relatively" ..... but a relative may be speaking in the future.

[beyond the sea]

she IS the liar.

Not Dan also? Is Dan not a liar?

[Space Wrangler]

Last Friday, two of the CBS News staffers who’d been asked to resign over a 60 Minutes Wednesday segment about President Bush’s Air National Guard service finally did so, signing nondisclosure agreements in the process.

Ah yes, just as I knew they would. SeeBS paid big money to these people to keep their mouths shut, lest anymore damage be done to the Tiffany network. Well, being that they were in a position to know that Dan Blather facilitated the entire 'story', at least they got rich, or at least should have gotten rich if they had any kind of brains at all. They were in a position to basically name their price within reason, and SeeBS had no option but to pay them. Had I been in the position, I would have let the SeeBS brass know that I would gladly leave when they made me independantly wealthy, or they'd get to read all about it in the book that would make me independantly wealthy. Their choice. SeeBS bought their silence.