{"id":680,"date":"2005-01-10T23:18:48","date_gmt":"2005-01-10T23:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:58","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:58","slug":"surely_they_jes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=680","title":{"rendered":"Surely They Jest&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/forward\/wwwimage.cbsnews.com\/htdocs\/pdf\/complete_report\/CBS_Report.pdf\" target=\"browser\">CBS report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The Panel does not find a basis to accuse those who investigated, produced, vetted or aired the Segment of having a political bias. The Panel does note, however, that on such a politically charged story, coming in the midst of a presidential campaign in which military service records had become an issue, there was a need for meticulous care to avoid any suggestion of an agenda at work. The Panel does not believe that the appropriate level of care to avoid the appearance of political motivation was used in connection with this story.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and this, an August 31 email <strike>from<\/strike> <b>to<\/b> Ms. Mapes <b>from Michael Smith, a producer working with her<\/b>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Today I am going to send the following hypothetical scenario to a reliable, trustable editor friend of mine&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat if there was a person who might have some information that could possibly <b>change the momentum of an election<\/b> but we needed to get an ASAP book deal to help get us the information? What kinds of turnaround payment schedules are possible, keeping in mind that the book probably could not make it out until after the election.<\/p>\n<p>\n(emphasis added)<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now just who the <i>hell<\/i> do they think they are kidding?<\/p>\n<p><b>[Update:<\/b>Note the correction &#8211; the email was <u>to<\/u> Mapes from her assistant, not <u>from<\/u> her.<b>]<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the CBS report: The Panel does not find a basis to accuse those who investigated, produced, vetted or aired the Segment of having a political bias. The Panel does note, however, that on such a politically charged story, coming in the midst of a presidential campaign in which military service records had become an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}