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Fired CBS News Producer Unrepentant (ABC Mary Mapes Interview)
ABC News ^ | 11/8/05 | BRIAN ROSS

Posted on 11/08/2005 1:45:17 PM PST by frankjr

In her first interview since being fired, former CBS News producer Mary Mapes maintains that her controversial "60 Minutes II" story on President Bush's National Guard service was "true" and that "no one has proved that the documents were not authentic."...

In her interview with ABC News chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross, to be broadcast Wednesday morning on "Good Morning America," Mapes says she is unrepentant about her role. "I don't think I committed bad journalism. I really don't," she says....

Mapes says Rather did not have "any obligation to resign" from his position, as CBS correspondent Mike Wallace recently suggested.

Mapes says she is continuing to investigate the source of the controversial documents whose authenticity was seriously questioned by the CBS panel. She tells Ross that she had no journalistic obligation to prove the authenticity of the documents before including them in the "60 Minutes II" report. "I don't think that's the standard," she said. ...

Mapes says one of her few regrets in handling the story was her phone call to a member of Sen. John Kerry's Presidential campaign staff prior to the broadcast. "I wish to God I hadn't done it, because I think it was so wildly misinterpreted." She says she made the call only as a way to gain favor with the source who provided her with the documents.

Mapes rejects suggestions she had political motives. "I did not have it in for George Bush," she said. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; bush43; danrather; fakebaccurate; fakebutaccurate; fakenews; georgebush; georgewbush; marymapes; mediabias; memogate; rathergate
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To: frankjr

So this is it.... the rest of her life justifying this?


21 posted on 11/08/2005 1:56:27 PM PST by woofie
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To: frankjr
No one has proven that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, either.
22 posted on 11/08/2005 1:56:35 PM PST by norwaypinesavage
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To: frankjr
Mary done got herself a new look.


23 posted on 11/08/2005 1:56:54 PM PST by andyandval
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To: Bigh4u2

The documents were authentic computer representations of memos that were supposed to have been 35 years ago, using microsoft word, that was invented less than 20 years ago. Nobody proved that the documents were fraudlent? Bullship. I'll bet mary mapes $ 100,000 cash up front, that the documents were not typed in the 60's and 70's and therefore were fraudulent.


24 posted on 11/08/2005 1:57:11 PM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
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To: frankjr
Mapes says she is continuing to investigate the source of the controversial documents...

"May I play through?"


25 posted on 11/08/2005 1:57:37 PM PST by Plutarch
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To: t2buckeye
"no one has proved that the documents were not authentic."...
Actually, they HAVE!! That's the reason she was FIRED!!!! When you say documents are from the 1970s and they can be shown to be word processed in Microsoft Word, a type that was NOT AROUND in the 70s...they are NOT AUTHENTIC!!


27 posted on 11/08/2005 1:58:20 PM PST by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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To: frankjr
---Mapes says she is continuing to investigate the source of the controversial documents whose authenticity was seriously questioned by the CBS panel.---

Then she will help OJ search for the real killers.

28 posted on 11/08/2005 1:58:38 PM PST by bigsigh
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To: USS Alaska

"The documents were authentic computer representations of memos that were supposed to have been 35 years ago, using microsoft word, that was invented less than 20 years ago."

Yeah I know.

I was here then.

But I understand your frustration with these LSM idiots.


29 posted on 11/08/2005 1:59:17 PM PST by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Bigh4u2
Beat me by 16 seconds

Well, great minds think alike, you know.
30 posted on 11/08/2005 1:59:49 PM PST by JamesP81
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To: frankjr
"no one has proved that the documents were not authentic."...

The modern liberal - demanding that others prove a negative, rather than vetting their own work.

31 posted on 11/08/2005 1:59:53 PM PST by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: andyandval

"Mary done got herself a new look."

Is that the before or after pic?


32 posted on 11/08/2005 2:00:01 PM PST by frankjr
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To: JamesP81

" Well, great minds think alike, you know."

It's either that or we both know BS when we see it.

:)


33 posted on 11/08/2005 2:01:42 PM PST by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: frankjr
"no one has proved that the documents were not authentic."...

Simply amazing. According to the Dinosaur media, it is now incumbent upon the public to prove a negative.

34 posted on 11/08/2005 2:01:53 PM PST by Eagles Talon IV (Still waiting for the)
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To: frankjr
"She tells Ross that she had no journalistic obligation to prove the authenticity of the documents before including them in the "60 Minutes II" report"

Does Mapes even understand the meaning of "slander", or "libel"?
Does she think networks are allowed to air lies?

The woman is dangerous....dangerous and deep in denial.

35 posted on 11/08/2005 2:03:09 PM PST by YaYa123 (@)
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To: theDentist
She had no journalistic obligation to prove the authenticity of the documents - I am just guessing here but she may want to leave that off of her resume.
36 posted on 11/08/2005 2:03:15 PM PST by SF Republican
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To: frankjr
ABC may have stumbled on a winning formula here. Unfortunately, I doubt they will follow it up with at least a weekly "Moonbat Interview" segment. They could do segments with Rangel, Durbin, Reid, Dean and plenty of others that would approach the standard established by Mapes.
37 posted on 11/08/2005 2:03:34 PM PST by DeFault User
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To: frankjr

38 posted on 11/08/2005 2:04:46 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Kill 'em til they're dead! Then, kill 'em again!)
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To: robowombat

In today's modern society we have technology that can tell the probability of forgery or not but Mapes is claiming that todays journalist have no obligation to use the technology, especially when they have an agenda. The modern media didn't get their way in the last election so now they will browbeat us with everything from oil to Libby and I'm really getting sick of it. They're still trying to play the game after places like FR has already claimed checkmate.


39 posted on 11/08/2005 2:06:33 PM PST by tobyhill (The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
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To: frankjr
'authentic' documents: yes

...they were created on a word processing program to simulate the real thing...but actual records of Bush's service: NO...

40 posted on 11/08/2005 2:06:52 PM PST by NoClones
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