Silver Lining For Fired CBS Producer

Posted on March 24, 2005

Editor and Publisher reports on a silver lining for fired CBS producer, Mary Mapes. Mapes has landed a high six-figure book deal with St. Martin's Press to tell her side of the Rathergate scandal. The book is tenatively titled--appropriately enough--The Other Side of the Story.

St. Martin's says Mapes "will chronicle what really happened at CBS and reveal the corporate, political and ideological agendas that threaten the integrity of journalists and the news." Ms. Mapes was given a pink slip by the CBS brass on January 10th after an independent panel found that the network had rushed the expose about President Bush's Texas Air National Guard Service without first verifying the authenticity of the infamous "Bush Memo." Ms. Mapes stands by the CBS story and says the documents were not forged. It will be interesting to hear her discuss exactly how that memo landed at CBS.