Mary Mapes: "FEA"
Mary likes that river in Egypt
“No one has proved that the documents were not authentic.”
“I don’t think I committed bad journalism. I really don’t.”
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.
She then went on to say she would like a career in journalism. “I like making a difference."
If you’re talking about an investigation that basically gutted a news organization, and turned people one against another and made people afraid of each other, and really scooted the country’s most experienced anchor out of his anchor chair, and now has the evening news casting about for some kind of format that will be zippy and new, I didn’t do that. I had absolutely nothing to do with any of that,” [Mapes] said.
She had absolutely nothing to do with this little pissing match either.
Posted by Claire on 11/09 at 01:26 PM
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