Thanks for posting this. What may be even more upsetting to Mapes is what CBS News is sending to those who will be interviewing her after her GMA debacle.
Look at the CBS News 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.)
Hey Mapes, your former employer, CBS News is setting the record straight about your lying past. CBS is not Free Republic.
In addition to FreeRepublic. What the CBS memo leaves out is that Mapes was no alone. It was All of CBS News that let this dog off the leash. I notice that after a face-saving interval, Rather and the CEO are gone.