CBS Fires Four Staffers After Memo Probe
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Four CBS News staffers were fired Monday following the release of an independent investigation that said a "myopic zeal" led to the airing of a discredited story about President Bush's military service.
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Description: A controversy continues over CBS News reporting on documents purported to be memos concerning President Bush&#39;s service in the Texas Air National Guard.
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Two experts hired by CBS News to examine records of President Bush's Vietnam-era service in the Texas Air National Guard told ABC on Tuesday that they could not vouch for the documents' veracity. Meanwhile, a former secretary in the guard said she believed the documents CBS used were fake, although they accurately reflected the thoughts of one of Bush's commanders.
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CBS News fired four employees on  Monday in the wake of an independent panel report that found a  "myopic zeal" led the network to disregard basic journalism  principles when it aired a faulty story about President Bush's  military service record.
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SEATTLE - A radio talk-show host said Saturday he has been fired for criticizing CBS newsman Dan Rather's handling of challenges to the authenticity of memos about President Bush's National Guard service.   "On the talk show that I host, or hosted, I said I felt Rather should either retire or be forced out over this," said Brian Maloney, whose weekly "The Brian Maloney Show" aired for three years on KIRO-AM Radio, a CBS affiliate here...
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WASHINGTON - Former Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and Louis Boccardi, retired head of The Associated Press, will conduct an independent investigation of CBS&#39; handling of disputed documents concerning President Bush&#39;s National Guard service.
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NEW YORK - Station managers at several CBS affiliates said Thursday they appear to be a target of a national e-mail campaign placing pressure on the network to oust Dan Rather as anchorman of the "CBS Evening News."   The anger stems from Rather's role in a "60 Minutes" report on President Bush's service in the National Guard. CBS has apologized for reporting on documents critical of Bush's service, widely assumed now as fakes, and appointed a panel to investigate what went wrong in the report...
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NEW YORK - CBS apologized Monday and said it was misled about the authenticity of documents used to support a "60 Minutes" story that questioned President Bush's Vietnam War-era National Guard service, after several experts denounced them as fakes.   "We should not have used them," CBS News President Andrew Heyward said...
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LOS ANGELES - CBS and producers of âThe Late Late Showâ said Wednesday that four performers who recently filled in for former host Craig Kilborn would return for what insiders say amounts to on-air tryouts to replace him permanently.
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Earlier this week, amid controversy over the validity of the recently released documents saying President Bush skirted his military duty in Texas, CBS News said they can now longer confirm that the memos from Col.
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A "myopic zeal" led CBS News to  disregarded basic principles of journalism and air an erroneous  story about President Bush's military service record, said an  independent report released on Monday, prompting the network to  fire four employees for their roles.
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NEW YORK - Within the next few days, CBS News expects to name an independent panel of experts to scrutinize its reporting of President Bush's National Guard service after its defenses for airing the explosive story crumbled.    Eleven days after questions surfaced about Dan Rather's "60 Minutes" report, the network apologized Monday and said it could not vouch for the authenticity of documents impugning the president's Guard service...
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CBS News acknowledged Monday that it received disputed documents critical of President Bush&#39;s service in the Texas Air National Guard from a former
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CBS may have escaped congressional scrutiny into the controversy over allegedly forged documents detailing President Bush's National Guard service, but only until the election is over.
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CBS News again defended its reporting Sunday, even as other media raised doubts about the authenticity of memos the network uncovered about President Bush&#39;s service in the Texas Air National Guard.
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CBS News on Monday said it will fire  four employees for their roles in an erroneous story broadcast  during the presidential campaign about President Bush's  National Guard service record.
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Mary Mapes, the longtime CBS producer who had prepared the segment, was fired, and three executives were urged to resign.