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...
View ArticleCBS 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...
View ArticleCBS 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...
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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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleMary Mapes: Not Going To Work With Dan Rather, Also Never Heard of ‘Radar’
Mary Mapes, the former CBS producer chiefly responsible for that network's flawed 2004 report on President Bush's National Guard service, is not joining her former boss, Dan Rather, at the cable...
View ArticleMaer Roshan: Mary Mapes Was Going To Work for Dan Rather, Has Too Heard of Radar
Radar editor Maer Roshan said that he is standing by his magazine's story that former CBS producer Mary Mapes is going to work with Dan Rather at HDNet. Both Ms. Mapes and HDNet's owner, Mark Cuban,...
View ArticleMark Cuban: Mary Mapes Will Never Work Here, And What Is This ‘Radar’?
HDNet, Mark Cuban's new cable channel, issued a formal statement today rebutting a Radar report that Mary Mapes, the former CBS producer, would be coming on board with Dan Rather. Yesterday, Radar...
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Would 'Rathergate' Make a Good Movie? Hollywood Insiders Working on Screen...
The Media Mob has learned that a team of Hollywood insiders is currently working on a screen adaptation of Truth And Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power—the 2005 book by former...
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Bernard Goldberg’s ‘Lost’ Fact About Mary Mapes Had Already Been Revealed...
Before Bernard Goldberg gets any more excited about the "secret" revelations on page 130 of the 2005 Boccardi-Thornburgh report, he should really check out another page in the whole Dan Rather vs. CBS...
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