Rooney: The Real Culprits Escaped
Charles Johnson
Tue Jan 11, 2005 at 2:01 pm PST • Views: 266
Andy Rooney gets this one right: CBS firings should go higher up.
“The people on the front lines got fired while the people most instrumental in getting the broadcast on escaped,” Rooney said. He was referring to the firing of producer Mary Mapes and the requested resignations of a senior vice president and two 60 Minutes producers while anchor Dan Rather and CBS News chief Andrew Heyward kept their jobs.
Rooney’s opinion was echoed by some outside observers who said CBS didn’t go far enough.
“Neither Heyward nor Rather are paying” for their parts in the story, said Tim Graham of the Media Research Center, which has long accused Rather and CBS News of tilting left politically.
For a news organization that has been so persistent in trying to push the blame for Abu Ghraib all the way to the top of the command chain, CBS is curiously reluctant to apply the same standard of accountability to themselves.
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