A News Story Gone Wrong: Fallout From the Forgery Flap

In one of the curious accidents of recent history, Mary Mapes’ book about losing her job at CBS hit the shelves on Nov. 8—the morning before Judith Miller lost her job at The New York Times. It was a sad couple of days for journalism—we’ve had a tough run lately—but a great moment for Read More

A News Story Gone Wrong: Fallout From the Forgery Flap

In one of the curious accidents of recent history, Mary Mapes’ book about losing her job at CBS hit the shelves on Nov. 8—the morning before Judith Miller lost her job at The New York Times. It was a sad couple of days for journalism—we’ve had a tough run lately—but a great moment for anyone Read More

CBS News Producer Fired In Memogate Will Shop Her Book

Last Friday, two of the CBS News staffers who’d been asked to resign over a 60 Minutes Wednesday segment about President Bush’s Air National Guard service finally did so, signing nondisclosure agreements in the process. That seemingly brought the network one step closer to concluding its six-month ordeal-just in time for anchor Dan Rather to Read More

CBS News’ Boss Hired Private Eye To Source Memos

On Sept. 20 of last year, CBS announced that it was employing an independent panel to investigate how 60 Minutes Wednesday had ended up relying on shaky-looking memos in its segment about President Bush’s past service in the Texas Air National Guard. The investigators, CBS said, would “determine what errors occurred in the preparation of Read More

Dear Dan Rather: Be a Stand-Up Star And Step Down Now

Dear Dan,

Courage.

Remember when you took over the anchor chair for the CBS Evening News and you tried signing off your broadcast with that word? Just “Courage.” Walter Cronkite signed off with “That’s the way it is.” You changed that to “Courage.” Until you dropped it-as a sign-off, anyway. Kind of a would-be, Read More