CBS News Comments On Employee's Anti-Republican E-mail

CBS News Public Eye blog ^ | 10/05/2006 | Vaughn Ververs

[GeneD]

The conservative Web site RedState today has posted an e-mail sent to the Republican National Committee by CBS News employee Vincent Cammisa, a tape archivist at the network. Under the subject head reading, “Perverted Internship Program,” the e-mail reads:

Please send me information on how I can become an intern for some perverted, phony family-values Congressman. I know there's no shortage of Republican hypocrites on the Hill, so please rush me the info ASAP. And don't forget to keep covering-up your dirty little secrets, it makes great fodder for your enemies.

I asked Linda Mason, senior vice president for standards and special projects at CBS News, about the e-mail and she told me:

CBS News standards do not allow CBS personnel to identify publicly with either party. Vincent Cammisa is an archivist and has no part in gathering or producing the news. He has been spoken to and told to do nothing like this again. This e-mail in no way reflects the views of CBS News.

RedState’s Dan McLaughlin comments on the e-mail:

The first funny thing about seeing the mask drop and the real politics of people high and low in the Mainstream Media revealed is how regularly these sorts of things show not just liberalism, but nasty, gloating, scornful leftism of the most unappealing sort - the very antithesis of the kind of attitude one would want from even a fair-minded journal of liberal opinion, let alone a news source that at least pretends to be objective.

There’s not a whole lot more to say. The opinions of a tape archivist do not speak for a news organization, let alone an entire industry. But it’s absolutely fair for critics to air such an ill-advised e-mail when it’s sent from a CBS News account. CBS News has recently updated its standards, something we’ll be addressing in more detail in the coming days, for reasons like this. Here’s hoping everyone in the news division takes a couple minutes to read them.

[Matchett-PI]

"Even if CBS effectively prohibits this kind of email, it changes nothing. Their personnel will still be the same hateful liberals they've always been. .."

Source

bttt

[Dog Gone]

Oh, that's good.

[GOPJ]

CBS News has recently updated its standards

CBS has standards? Does that mean they're hypocrites if they don't reach those standards? Should CBS wallow in the underbelly of life so they can't be accused of not meeting their "standards"?

Well, in fact, CBS has imparted their standards to this hateful young man - and to Mapes and the rest of the crews there. Must be nice to have standards so low they can't be failed...

[#1CTYankee]

"Will Vincent's boss now step down?"

If we go by the Democrats standards the President of CBS should resign.

[AngieGOP]

"He needs to resign! Fire him! Investigate him! Investigate everyone! Where does he live? Post pictures of his house! When does he walk his dog and where? We need maps."

You forgot to add Is he overweight? Let's make fun of his body on Saturday Night Live. Does he have pimples? Let's make fun of his complextion. Are the papparazzi chasing him? Nope, only Republicans get that sort of treatment.

[mountainfolk]

Aside from the obvious red flag about this guy's sexual orientation, this is rather serious for the long run. CBS has a 'tape archivist' so biased as to not be able to objectively look at a situation that he explodes public ally. This person is in a position to edit film, lose film, etc. to alter anything CBS or he himself wants. Not that this type of alteration of facts would be anything CBS would disapprove of, in fact seems to encourage. But it is another warning to the GOP and this administration to be very careful in anything having to do with CBS and the MSM in general.

[undeniable logic]

They claim not to have a liberal bias. I wonder when was the last time they have had to comment on an anti-Democrat message?

[Lancey Howard]

This e-mail in no way reflects the views of CBS News.

Yes, it most certainly does.