Here's their Peabody Award! LMAO
Posted on 04/11/2005 11:02:33 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
Dan Rather and Mary Mapes, the reporter/producer team behind the discredited Bush National Guard hit job, won a prestigious Peabody Award last Thursday for their Abu Ghraib story which aired earlier last year on 60 Minutes II. The University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication issues the awards every year and Horace Newcomb, director of the Peabody Awards, insisted to the New York Times: "It was one of the most important stories of the year and was one of the crucial components of the ongoing conflict in Iraq." Mapes, who was fired by CBS over the Bush story, told the New York Times: "I think there is at least context here, if not vindication. And I am happy for my colleagues at CBS."
The entry about CBS in Peabody's list of winners:
"60 Minutes II: Abuse at Abu Ghraib CBS News This Dan Rather report broke the story of the abuses at Abu Ghraib Prison in Baghdad, airing for the first time the photographs of American soldiers and abused Iraqi prisoners that shocked the world."
For the full list of winners: www.peabody.uga.edu
For the April 7 press release from the Peabody committee, "64th Annual Peabody Awards winners announced: Morley Safer to Host Awards Ceremony on May 16 at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria," go to: www.peabody.uga.edu
An excerpt from an April 8 New York Times article by David Carr:
....But it was the award to "60 Minutes II" that set tongues wagging because of the recent controversy that led to Ms. Mapes's firing and Mr. Rather's early departure. (He continues to work for CBS as a reporter.) Horace Newcomb, director of the Peabody Awards, said that in this instance, an award is just an award.
The prison story "stands on its own merits," he said. "It was one of the most important stories of the year and was one of the crucial components of the ongoing conflict in Iraq."
Susan Stewart, a television critic with TV Guide and one of the judges of the awards, concurred.
"I have been participating in these awards for a number of years, and there is never any agenda; it is a pure process," she said. "Now, we don't operate in a vacuum and you can't turn your brain off, but the process of judging the work is separate from any other consideration."
In citing the report, the committee said, "This Dan Rather report broke the story of the abuses at Abu Ghraib Prison in Baghdad, airing for the first time the photographs of American soldiers and abused Iraqi prisoners that shocked the world. "
Ms. Mapes, who...is writing a book about the controversy created by the report on the president's National Guard service, said she got a call from Mr. Rather yesterday, one she received with a fair amount of trepidation.
"He said, 'I have some news for you,' and I said, 'Now what?' " Mr. Rather related the happy news that their Abu Ghraib collaboration had received one of broadcasting's highest distinctions. Ms. Mapes described the experience as bittersweet, "but more sweet than bitter."
"I was happy to get the news, especially from someone I love and respect so much," she said. "I think there is at least context here, if not vindication. And I am happy for my colleagues at CBS. I have always tried to separate the people who flicked me like a piece of lint off their shoulder when things were tough and the people that I worked with, who I remain very proud of."
While Mr. Rather may have called Ms. Mapes with the news, he chose to issue a very formal statement -- no Rather-isms to mark the honor -- instead of being interviewed.
"Each of us who worked on the Abu Ghraib story for CBS News is deeply and humbly appreciative to the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, and to its advisory board of judges, for honoring the report with a Peabody Award," the statement said....
End of Excerpt
For the story in full: www.nytimes.com
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a prestigious Peabody Award
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Prestigious? Ha, . . . ha ha ha ha HA HA HA HA HA HA, . . . oh, my, . . . ha, ha, ha ha, . . . ha gawd, . . ha ha ha.
Apparently, those Peabody people want to make sure we know where they stand.
Name should be changed to PeaBrain Award
Name should be changed to PeaBrain Award
If the award was ever truly prestigious, I think this has removed any prestige it may have had.
No. No this can't be. You're kidding, right?
Just like the Nobel people.
Here's their Peabody Award! LMAO
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a prestigious Peabody Award
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Prestigious? Ha, . . . ha ha ha ha HA HA HA HA HA HA, . . . oh, my, . . . ha, ha, ha ha, . . . ha gawd, . . ha ha ha.
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Maybe it USED TO BE prestigious. Didn't Arafat win the nobel peace prize?
You can judge an award by it's company, not the other way around.
Being a Georgian, I try to be loyal to UGA, but just have to mention that they do a loootttt of drinking up in Athens.
Peabody award? Never heard of it. Does it mean their body is shaped like a pea?
Yawnnnn...give'm the nobel peace prize too...yaaaawnnnn...
FMCDH(BITS)
In keeping with the Headlines as Ripley's candidates theme..
Very strange award, you have to walk up backwards to receive it behind your back.
No, But they do smell like it. lol
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