On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 07:36:04 -0500, Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
wrote:
>The New York Observer has an update on the aftermath of CBS's
>phony-documents scandal. Two of the three CBS executives who were asked
>to resign in January after the release of the report on the scandal, Mary
>Murphy and Betsy West, have now done so, "signing nondisclosure
>agreements in the process." The third exec, Josh Howard, is still holding
>out; a Howard wrongful-termination suit could be disastrous for CBS.
>
>Meanwhile, Mary Mapes, the segment producer, "is preparing to shop a book
>proposal offering an inside account of what happened at CBS News during
>the memo scandal":
>
> The book will constitute Ms. Mapes' defense against
> charges of journalistic misconduct. According to Wesley
> Neff, president of the literary and lecture agency
> that is representing Ms. Mapes, the producer plans to
> argue for the veracity of the four memos supposedly
> typed by President Bush's former National Guard
> squadron commander, Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, in the
> early 1970's. . . .
Soon to be in a Barnes and Noble $5.00 dump bin near you.
>
> Ms. Mapes' book proposal will include 40 pages of
> analysis and documentation that she offered to the
> panel to back up the documents' authenticity. In an
> addendum to that material--supplied on the condition
> it not be directly quoted--Ms. Mapes avoids direct
> discussion of fonts and character spacing.
Suprise, surprise. Mapes should sue Microsoft for not making
a font in Windows Word that matched 1973 type writer fonts!
Who knows? In the U.S., some idiot judge could find merit in it.
-Rich
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