Don't be trying to scare me and my 'little dog too'! My little dog has learned some tricks since you last saw him!
Posted on 11/09/2005 8:17:40 AM PST by Grampa Dave
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/print?id=1292736
'Truth and Duty' Producer Argues She Was Abandoned By Mainstream Press and Attacked by the Right
Nov. 7, 2005 — - Last year the world of broadcast news was rocked when Dan Rather stepped down as CBS' evening news anchor after questions emerged over a network report on President Bush's National Guard service. The documents used in a segment of "60 Minutes II" were discredited; segment producer Mary Mapes' impressive career came crashing down -- she was fired from the network.
In a statement CBS News said: "Mary Mapes' actions damaged CBS News as an organization and brought pain to many colleagues with whom she worked. As always, revisionist history must be tested against the facts."
Mapes thinks otherwise. In the upcoming issue of "Vanity Fair," she argues that the campaign to discredit the story she produced was little more than a political slime-job organized by Bush backers.
"I think I'm somebody who got fired for trying to do their job in a difficult atmosphere," she said. "I don't think I committed bad journalism, I really don't. I don't think I've done a good job for 25 years, woke up on the morning of September 8th and decided to commit professional hare kare." Her book, "Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power" (St. Martin's Press), details the fallout from the story and how Mapes has struggled to come to terms with the end of her illustrious career.
Read an excerpt of chapter one of the book below.
Chapter One I woke up smiling on September 9, 2004.
My story on George W. Bush's Guard service had run on "60 Minutes" the night before and I felt it had been a solid piece. We had worked under tremendous pressure because of the short time frame and the explosive content, but we'd made our deadline and, most important, we'd made news.
I was confident in my work and marveled once again at the teamwork and devotion of so many people at "60 Minutes." They really knew how to pull together to get a story on the air. I was also deeply proud of CBS News for having the guts to air a provocative story on a controversial part of the president's past.
By the end of the day, all of that would change. By the end of the month, I would be barred from doing my job and under investigation. By the end of the year, my long career at CBS News would essentially be over, after a long, excruciating, and very public beating.
Thank's devolve
Another example of the fact
that you don't need a high IQ to be a journalist.
In fact, it's a handicap.
LOL, that is cute - in a wierd, clownish, sortof way!!
Talk about 'green eyes'!
LOL, I pinged you on the wrong one then!
Don't be trying to scare me and my 'little dog too'! My little dog has learned some tricks since you last saw him!
A mapebat! Works for me.
Went to the bank....
LOL, I just found that one on a thread recently. Same little dog as on my page! I figured you would get a kick out of it!
Yes, in the left wing world of the MSM, a high IQ, sanity and morality would be a handicap.
The Mapeist doesn't have any of these 3 qualities.
I just read the first chapter of the book. It is astounding. Her failure to be objective about her own errors about the documents raises serious questions about her entire body of work. It is like hearing that the government's fingerprint expert has been lying for years: you have to throw out all the cases.
Can't forget:
"Mapula"
"Mapenstein"
"Halloween 25: Return of the Mapes"
Made a deposit.....
mapehad
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