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The President and the Privilege of Power: Part II Of Our Conversation With "Memo-Gate" Pro
We continue our conversation with Mary Mapes, the longtime television news producer and reporter who worked for CBS for fifteen years. Mapes tells the story of the memo that brought down CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather and prompted CBS to force out four of its top journalists - including Mapes. In the report, Rather charged that President Bush had received preferential treatment in the National Guard in the early 1970s.
We go now to Part II of our interview with Mary Mapes who joined us yesterday in our firehouse studio.
Mary is a veteran television news producer and reporter who worked for CBS for 15 years. She was most well-known for breaking the Abu Ghraib prison torture stories in 2004. A few months after that story aired, another story in which Mary was the lead producer aired on the Wednesday edition of 60 Minutes. That report ended up bringing down CBS News anchor Dan Rather and prompted the network to force out four of its top journalists, including Mary Mapes.
On September 8th 2004- two months before the Presidential election- a report critical of President Bush's service in the Texas National Guard aired on 60 Minutes. In the report, CBS anchor Dan Rather charged that President Bush had received preferential treatment in the National Guard in the early 1970"s and used as evidence copies of memos that had been provided to the network by a confidential source.
The source turned out to be retired Texas National Guard officer, Bill Burkett. Almost immediately, the validity of the memo and the credibility of the source came under attack.
Mapes was fired after an investigation by CBS which she says was politically biased. The investigation was led by the CEO of the Associated Press Louis Boccardi and former U.S Attorney General Dick Thornburgh who had served in the Presidential administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush Senior.
Mapes has written a book about her experience titled, "Truth and Duty: The Press, The President and the Privilege of Power." She has always stood by the National Guard story and maintains that the documents in question were never found to be false."
* Mary Mapes, former CBS producer. Author of "Truth and Duty: The Press, The President and the Privilege of Power."
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Mary is a veteran television news producer and reporter who worked for CBS for 15 years. She was most well-known for breaking the Abu Ghraib prison torture stories in 2004. A few months after that story aired, another story in which Mary was the lead producer aired on the Wednesday edition of 60 Minutes. That report ended up bringing down CBS News anchor Dan Rather and prompted the network to force out four of its top journalists, including Mary Mapes.
On September 8th 2004- two months before the Presidential election- a report critical of President Bush's service in the Texas National Guard aired on 60 Minutes. In the report, CBS anchor Dan Rather charged that President Bush had received preferential treatment in the National Guard in the early 1970"s and used as evidence copies of memos that had been provided to the network by a confidential source.
The source turned out to be retired Texas National Guard officer, Bill Burkett. Almost immediately, the validity of the memo and the credibility of the source came under attack.
Mapes was fired after an investigation by CBS which she says was politically biased. The investigation was led by the CEO of the Associated Press Louis Boccardi and former U.S Attorney General Dick Thornburgh who had served in the Presidential administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush Senior.
Mapes has written a book about her experience titled, "Truth and Duty: The Press, The President and the Privilege of Power." She has always stood by the National Guard story and maintains that the documents in question were never found to be false."
* Mary Mapes, former CBS producer. Author of "Truth and Duty: The Press, The President and the Privilege of Power."
LISTEN ONLINE
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/10/1434202
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