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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.
I can't get enough of that photo!
Excellent: "The Mapes of Wrath."
Thanks for the feedback of her other tv appearances.
Whoever her handler/pr person is, isn't helping Mapes by allowing her to do these interviews.
LOL! This is fun!
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That says it all, Mary. You made up "news".
Thanks for the clarification.
"Mapes is a fool. She is even an embarrassment to the liberal news media. How bad can that be?"
Apparently it is even worse for Mapes than we suspected.
Look at the CBS response to her appearance on GMA. This was sent to Larry King before and he read it before he interviewed Mapes. Apparently O'Reilly got the same response before Mapes was on his show.
"(After yesterday's Mapes' Good Morning America appearance, CBS issued the following statement, which Larry King read to Mapes last night):
"KING: We're here with Mary Mapes, the book "Truth and Duty, the Press, the President and the Privilege of Power." CBS News gave us this statement today.
"Mary Mapes' actions damaged CBS News as an organizational and brought pain to many colleagues with whom she worked. Her disregard for journalistic standards -- and for her colleagues -- comes through loud and clear in her interviews and in the book that attempts to rewrite the history of this complex and sad affair.
As always, revisionist history must be tested against the facts. Not only are those facts contained in the extensive media coverage that took place at the time, but also in the 200-plus-page report of the independent panel which investigated the matter for more than three months.
We believe those facts speak for themselves. The idea that a news organization would not need to authenticate such important source material is only one of the troubling and erroneous statement in her account."
(Mapes only reply was: CBS has been working on that statement for months.)
I saw the Mapeist on O'Reilly's show earlier last night --
O'Reilly was amazed by her attitude and self-invented "media standards" --
The Mapeopath has a very strange souless look in her eyes --
Interesting note: "Mapeopath" passed FR's "Spellcheck"
I can just imagine O'Reilly having that email from CBS news about the Mapeopath before his interview.
Aint it great when they start telling the truth, with out realising it? They think they are so above everyone else they have the arrogance to tell the truth think us 'yokels' will just let it go over our head!
"Aint it great when they start telling the truth, with out realising it? They think they are so above everyone else they have the arrogance to tell the truth think us 'yokels' will just let it go over our head!"
If and when lunatics like Mapes/Blather ever tell the truth, do they even realize that it is the truth?
She thinks that the press will give her the same pass that they gave Clinton.
I like her better as the rabid moonbat.
Great graphics!
She'll end up seeing these you know!
They'll drive her over the (next) cliffs!
Spot-on legacy stuff -
"The Mapeopath" does have those empty looney eyes!
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