The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
And speaking of CBS...
...someone left the fox in charge of the henhouse over there (from JustOneMinute):
"We Were Only Issuing Orders"
Last week, John Ellis mocked the "Reverse Nuremberg" defense offered by CBS News President Andrew Heyward, who inexplicably kept his job in the rout at CBS following the panel report on Memogate.
Well, now Mr. Ellis has something new to mock - remember how CBS fired Mary Mapes and announced that three other executives had been "asked to leave"? Well, according to CBS chairman Leslie Moonves, they would prefer not to:
Mr. Moonves again defended retaining the president of CBS News, Andrew Heyward, saying that he was satisfied that Mr. Heyward had asked the right questions before the broadcast, though he was "denied the right answers" by the executives under him.
The report's producer, Mary Mapes, was fired as a result of the panel's report. Three others were asked to resign. Mr. Moonves revealed today that none of the three have done so. Asked what CBS will do if they refuse to resign, Mr. Moonves said he could not talk about that situation. "It's a legal issue," he said.
It must be like herding cats over there.
"We Were Only Issuing Orders"
Last week, John Ellis mocked the "Reverse Nuremberg" defense offered by CBS News President Andrew Heyward, who inexplicably kept his job in the rout at CBS following the panel report on Memogate.
Well, now Mr. Ellis has something new to mock - remember how CBS fired Mary Mapes and announced that three other executives had been "asked to leave"? Well, according to CBS chairman Leslie Moonves, they would prefer not to:
Mr. Moonves again defended retaining the president of CBS News, Andrew Heyward, saying that he was satisfied that Mr. Heyward had asked the right questions before the broadcast, though he was "denied the right answers" by the executives under him.
The report's producer, Mary Mapes, was fired as a result of the panel's report. Three others were asked to resign. Mr. Moonves revealed today that none of the three have done so. Asked what CBS will do if they refuse to resign, Mr. Moonves said he could not talk about that situation. "It's a legal issue," he said.
It must be like herding cats over there.
