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FAITH-BASED REPORTING
Mary Mapes, fired by CBS for idiocy, hasn’t learned a thing:
Three of CBS’s own document experts say they had warned CBS they could not authenticate the memos. Mapes’s source for the documents, former National Guardsman Bill Burkett, later admitted lying about who had given him the memos said to have been written by Bush’s long-dead Guard commander. “Document analysis is a real subjective profession,” said Mapes, who still believes the memos are real.
Who said journalists were cynical?
Perhaps her greatest fury is reserved for the “vicious” bloggers who pounced on the “60 Minutes II” report within hours—and who she believes provided the map that major news organizations, including The Washington Post, essentially followed.
“I was attacked, Dan was attacked, CBS was attacked 24 hours a day by people who hid behind screen names,” Mapes said. “I may be a flawed journalist, but I put my name on things.”
Take that, Atrios!
Despite her career implosion, Mapes hopes to stay in journalism. “It’s what I’m good at,” she said. “I like making a difference.”
Well, she made a difference to Dan Rather’s career. Like O.J. prowling golf courses in search of his wife’s killer, Mapes is still hunting for the truth:
Mapes says she is continuing to investigate the source of the controversial documents whose authenticity was seriously questioned by the CBS panel.
Might have been an idea to try that before going to air. Speaking of which:
She tells Ross that she had no journalistic obligation to prove the authenticity of the documents before including them in the “60 Minutes II” report. “I don’t think that’s the standard,” she said.
Not for CBS, evidently. Too bad for Mapes that her audience is a little more demanding.
Evidently what she is good at is trashing reputations, including hers, Dan Rather’s and CBS’
I say, “You go girl. Trash the reputations of more liberal icons. You’re not just good at it, you’re very, very good at it.”
And I love the admission that she’s too stupid to figure out the names of the guys at Powerline and Charles Johnson at LGF. How does she breathe and walk at the same time?
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2005 11 09 at 10:48 AM • permalink‘It’s what I’m good at’
Well maybe on a self evaluation
‘Mapes says she is continuing to investigate the source of the controversial documents ‘
It was Lucy Ramirez remember?
Posted by IcallMasICM on 2005 11 09 at 11:53 AM • permalink“...memo said to have been written by Bush’s long dead commander”: Don’t you all get it by now what the MSM consider the height of journalist integrity. Make up the words of a dead man or censor the actual words to make them seem to say the opposite of what the dead man meant. Check out the NY Times story on Cpl. Starr.
Every time this woman opens her mouth, my jaw hits the floor.
She tells Ross that she had no journalistic obligation to prove the authenticity of the documents before including them in the “60 Minutes II” report. “I don’t think that’s the standard,” she said.
This is the marvelous system of professional checks and balances that makes the MSM superior to pajama-clad bloggers.
She tells Ross that she had no journalistic obligation to prove the authenticity of the documents before including them in the “60 Minutes II” report. “I don’t think that’s the standard,” she said.
What? Mary Mapes wasn’t trying to peddle a fake fax that proves Tim Blair was previously married to Margo Kingston. (Wouldn’t that be something?)
She was trying to bring scandal to a sitting President of the most powerful nation in history during war a mere weeks prior to an election. She was using her position, assigned to her through the trust of CBS and the American people by extennsion, to ensure the election of a candidate which she supported. Considering the important issues at stake, she was absolutely held to the highest standard —that the charges asserted against President Bush were genuine beyond a reasonable doubt.
Hell, she didn’t even meet a standard of “more likely than not”. She should change her career path to one in the lodging and food service industry.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 11 09 at 01:55 PM • permalinkShe should change her career path to one in the lodging and food service industry.
Heck no.
Customer: Excuse me, I ordered a Big Mac.
Mapes: Yes.
Customer: That’s a cheese burger.
Mapes: No, it’s not.
Customer: Of course it is. It’s much too small for a Big Mac, and besides, it even says “Cheese Burger” right here on the packaging.
Mapes: IT’S A BIG MAC YOU RIGHT-WING SMEAR ARTIST!!!Amazing how this wanting to make a difference attracts and motivates the journalistic profession. It is said so often, it must be important. Yet when you examine it for content, it turns out to be more than a little ambiguous and, er, vacuous.
“I want to make a difference!”
Hmm, saying it out loud didn’t help. I just find it puzzling. What is a “difference,” exactly? Do you make it out of paper or mud?
Posted by Assistant Village Idiot on 2005 11 09 at 08:56 PM • permalinkWell, you know what SezaGeoff? My fax was given to me by no less a personage than Mary Mapes. And she’s a journalist! Vouched for by Dan Rather! So that makes it a fact!
Need another person who will vouch for my fax? Well, I got one. Lucy Ramirez. Once I find her, well she’ll tell you it’s authentic. And then you will look foolish.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 11 09 at 09:23 PM • permalinkWronwright, Jayson Blair is willing to vouch for you too.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2005 11 09 at 11:30 PM • permalinkMaybe she should send her resume in to Mrs Margook.
One who hates facts and another who wont check. A match made in heaven.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2005 11 10 at 03:35 AM • permalink
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“I don’t think that’s the standard,” she said.
Of course not, dear.
Sheesh.