"Four CBS News employees, including three executives"

Several observations: the linked news story claims Mapes "broke" the Abu Graib story. She did not. Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt was the first one to disclose the criminal investigations into the conduct of Army reserve personnel at Abu Graib during one of the daily CPA press briefings. Mapes, weeks later, was lucky enough to get the pictures that made a one paragraph, inside page, story the media circus it became. Second, the Thornburgh report, or at least the spin on it, seems to absolve Dan Rather who appears to have been "mislead" by Mapes. This treatment of Dan Rather looks suspiciously like the treatment accorded Peter Arnett after his CNN special on "Operation Ill-Wind" where Arnett claimed the U.S. Army used nerve gas on POWs collatborating with the enemy. No matter how you slice, Dan's credibility, and that of CBS News, is in tatters.

Schwackong? I don't know, I sort of hear it as more of a "CHUNK chunk!", but that's just me.

Props on finding a Mary Mapes photo. All I can say is -- she's no Jennifer Millerwise. And I nearly did a hot coffee spit take when I read about the Garfield calendar.

My own cruel schadenfreude post is also up.

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