Forged Documents Controversy Update
RatherBiased.com reports:
Josh Howard, the executive producer of “60 Minutes Wednesday” during Memogate and the only CBS employee who had the guts to suggest that the network admit to wrongdoing before Memogate became a mess is threatening CBS with a lawsuit if it does not sufficiently retract its explanation of the scandal and fully come clean about the role of upper management in the network’s stonewall defense.
And furthermore:
Howard is threatening to sue the network for wrongful termination and is said to be willing to testify under oath and subpoena secret internal documents and emails from his former employers.
It looks like this story is not over by a longshot.
Odd that CBS hasn’t paid him off yet. The last thing CBS want is to go to court, and have Howard spill the insider bean.
BigFire (194640) — 2/16/2005 @ 7:55 amIt’s obvious that when “a story goes away” is no longer controlled by the editors of the MSM, and it’s driving them nuts.
Boman (c31bf8) — 2/16/2005 @ 1:59 pmGood!
The New York Observer story says the following:
In a recent article in The New York Law Journal, James C. Goodale, the former vice chairman of The New York Times, called the CBS investigation “a flawed report. It should not be swallowed hook, line and sinker.”
He added: “Surprisingly, the report is unable to conclude whether the documents are forgeries or not. If the documents are not forgeries, why is the panel writing the report?”
Goodale’s question goes to the crux of the problem with CBS. If CBS has never admitted that the Killian Memos are fake, then how could CBS president Leslie Moonves accuse Josh Howard of doing something wrong?
Dodo David (8f3123) — 2/16/2005 @ 3:09 pm