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CBS news employees refusing to quit Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/10921121.htm http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/10921121.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 17, 2005 CBS News employees refusing to quit over story on Bush's service BY RICHARD HUFF New York Daily News NEW YORK - (KRT) - Five weeks after CBS blamed them for botching an expose into President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard, three staffers who were asked to resign are refusing to quit. Josh Howard, executive producer of "60 Minutes Wednesday," senior broadcast producer Mary Murphy, and senior vice president Betsy West, are fighting to save their reputations. Howard has hired a lawyer and wants CBS honcho Leslie Moonves to retract comments he made following the release of an exhaustive investigation into how the report got on the air, the New York Observer reported Wednesday. And Murphy and West are said to be in deep discussions with top brass at the Tiffany Network and refusing to budge until their names are cleared. All three staffers remain on the CBS payroll. "We're not going to comment," said a CBS spokesman Wednesday after the Observer broke the story. Along with producer Mary Mapes, the trio were criticized for their "myopic zeal" to nail Bush in an independent panel's 224-page dissection of the story. Star anchorman Dan Rather and CBS News President Andrew Heyward escaped the ax - but not the fallout. And the controversy is believed to have hastened Rather's decision to give up the anchor's chair on March 9. CBS has been dogged by the so-called Memogate scandal since September when bloggers questioned the veracity of the documents on which the anti-Bush story was hung. At first, Rather and CBS stuck by their story, which alleged that Bush disobeyed orders and used family connections to land a coveted pilot slot in the National Guard and escape service in the Vietnam War. Eventually, CBS was forced to back down and, after Rather apologized, former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and Louis Boccardi, retired head of The Associated Press, were asked to find out what went wrong. Mapes, an award-winning producer who broke the story about the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by GIs at Abu Ghraib prison, was blamed for not being forthcoming with her superiors about the documents. Howard, Murphy and West failed to ask basic questions that would have revealed just how flimsy the sourcing on the story was, the panel said. --- © 2005, New York Daily News. Visit the Daily News online at http://www.nydailynews.com Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services.

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