CBS execs asked to resign haven't done so

San Jose Mercury ^ | 1/19/2005 | Associated Press

[Happy Valley Dude]

LOS ANGELES - The three CBS News executives asked to resign for their roles in the network's discredited story about President Bush's National Guard service had not done so by Wednesday, more than a week later. It was unclear whether their lack of action foreshadows a legal battle between CBS and Josh Howard, executive producer of "60 Minutes Wednesday"; his top deputy, Mary Murphy; and CBS senior vice president Betsy West. "There are discussions going on with them," CBS chairman Leslie Moonves said. Moonves would not elaborate further, and network spokesman Gil Schwartz declined to say whether CBS had been contacted by lawyers representing the three executives. The producer of last September's story, Mary Mapes, was fired outright Jan. 10 after an independent panel found CBS rushed the story critical of Bush's military service on the air without ever proving that documents upon which it was based were real. Howard and Murphy were asked to resign for failing to fulfill their supervisory roles and letting the story air. The panel said Murphy did not follow an order from CBS News President Andrew Heyward to quickly investigate when questions were raised about the documents. West did not immediately return a telephone call Wednesday, and Howard declined comment. Attempts to find a telephone number for Murphy were unsuccessful.

[Fixit]

So, CBS fired them?

   Nope, we asked them to resign.

So they're gone?

   Nope, but they will be.

How?

   We fixed the glitch

[Grampa Dave]

"Oh, man. Mapes is still there, too?"

"This whole thing stinks. Folks asked to resign still drinking coffee in their offices and fired employees yucking it up there, too."

Just more confirmation that CBS/Viacom must never be trusted.

[hosepipe]

Trusting Les Moonbat to do the right thing is like trusting The Hildebeast to forgo trips on her Aswip 2000 flying broom with viberator.. Shes a witch after all.. and hes a Moonbat

[ED Basher]

Sounds like CBS needs to hire some new consultants. I know two guys named Bob ...

The Bobs

This is too much fun and I gotta get some work done ...

ED

[samadams2000]

I think that the real story is that even though they are to resign..and they are suing...that they were all paid a lot of money..hush money you could say. this story aint over.