CBS Plucks Out Offending Eyes

January 10th, 2005

The network’s head honcho had a messy job on his hands today:

Heads rolled today at CBS News after an independent panel found that a failure to follow ”basic journalistic steps” led to the airing of an erroneous 60 Minutes Wednesday report on President George W. Bush’s National Guard service. In a detailed statement, CBS President Leslie Moonves said the network had terminated the employment of Mary Mapes, the segment’s producer; Josh Howard, executive producer of 60 Minutes Wednesday; Mary Murphy, Howard’s right-hand; and Betsy West, CBS’ senior vice president of prime time.

It wasn’t good enough, though. Moonves should’ve also fired Dan Rather and Andrew Heyward while he was at it.

Update: A few minutes with Andy Rooney…


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