CBS News Concludes It Was Misled on National Guard Memos, Network Officials Say
Date: 20 September 2004
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
CBS News officials are said to have grave doubts about authenticity of 60 Minutes report that raised new questions about Pres Bush's National Guard service; network officials say announcement will likely be made that CBS News was deceived about documents' origins; network officials say they are now beginning to believe that report was too flawed to have gone on air; report relied in large part on four memorandums purported to be from personal file of Bush's squadron commander Lt Col Jerry B Killian, who died 20 years ago; Dan Rather and others at network are said to still believe that sentiments expressed in memos accurately reflect Killian's feelings but that documents' authenticity is now in grave doubt; case recalled (M)
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CBS Apologizes for Report on Bush Guard Service
Date: 21 September 2004
By Jim Rutenberg and Kate Zernike
Jim Rutenberg
Dan Rather and CBS News admit that they have been unable to authenticate four documents network used to raise new questions about Pres Bush's Vietnam-era National Guard service, calling their news report 'mistake in judgment'; network officials say former Texas National Guard officer Bill Burkett misled their producers about how he obtained documents, which came under scrutiny almost as soon as report was broadcast on CBS Evening News and 60 Minutes on Sept 8; CBS News president Andrew Heyward says using documents was 'mistake, which we deeply regret'; Rather initially insisted that wide questioning of documents--purportedly from personal files of Lt Col Jerry B Killian, Bush's squadron commander--came from partisans; he delivers his own apology, calling incident 'error made in good faith'; week ago, CBS News officials and Rather were standing steadfastly by report, dismissing days of accusations from document experts that records were fakes produced on modern computer; network says it is appointing panel of experts to review how such flawed report got onto air, especially one with such potential implications for sitting president just 50 days before an election; says it will make results public; photos (M)
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CBS Quiet About Fallout, but Precedent Is Ominous
Date: 21 September 2004
By Bill Carter and Jacques Steinberg
Bill Carter
CBS commissions report on how forged documents were aired concerning Pres Bush's record in National Guard, after anchor Dan Rather admits being caught in 'relaxation of vigilance' he has warned of in past; those under scrutiny also include Mary Mapes, considered one of best newsmagazine producers at CBS News, and longtime CBS News president Andrew Hayward; extraordinary highs and lows of Rather's four-decade career recalled (M)
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Microsoft Co-Founder Puts Different Spin on Sports
Date: 20 September 2004
By Sean Mehegan
Sean Mehegan
Sporting News, distant third in circulation in sports magazines, has just begun to turn profit for Paul G Allen's Vulcan Inc after top-to-bottom review of its holdings by new management led by Rick Allen; Rick Allen (no relation to Paul) comments on strategy; photos (M)
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Even Humbled by Error, Dan Rather Has His Thorns
Date: 21 September 2004
By Alessandra Stanley
Alessandra Stanley
CBS anchor Dan Rather offers simple on-air 'I'm sorry' about airing questionable documents concerning Pres Bush's National Guard service; Rather, 72, most compelling of network anchors, has had long career dotted with memorable moments of his own making (M)
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Online Columnist Quits, Citing Excessive Editing
Date: 20 September 2004
By Nat Ives
Nat Ives
Geneva Overholser stops writing weekly online column for Poynter Institute, journalism education organization, complaining that editors omitted name of accuser in rape case against Kobe Bryant from her column advocating media disclose name (M)
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Newark Housing Chief Defends Spending and Layoffs
Date: 21 September 2004
By Damien Cave
Damien Cave
Harold Lucas, executive director of Newark Housing Authority, gives reporters tour of headquarters building that is at center of federal investigation of excessive spending; acknowledges spending about $600,000 on renovations to building in addition to nearly $400,000 on equipment and other upgrades, all of which came before he laid off 84 employees; says he is proud of overhaul because its cost was below average for comparable work; photo (M)
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Eddie Adams, Journalist Who Showed Violence of Vietnam, Dies at 71
Date: 20 September 2004
By Andy Grundberg
Andy Grundberg
Eddie Adams, Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist whose 1968 photo of Vietcong prisoner being executed on Saigon street galvanized antiwar sentiment, dies at age 71; photos (M)
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Reuters Asks a Chain to Remove Its Bylines
Date: 20 September 2004
By Ian Austen
Ian Austen
Reuters asks Canada's largest newspaper chain, CanWest Global Communications, to remove its writers' bylines from articles in which its papers substitute word 'terrorist' for terms like 'insurgent' and 'rebel'; cites concern that changes could lead to 'confusion' about reports and possibly endanger reporters; also asks CanWest to add its name to that of Reuters as source of revised articles and to display Reuters name only at end of articles; CanWest editor in chief Scott Anderson holds terrorism is deliberate targeting of civilians for political goals and rejection of definition undermines journalistic principles (M)
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SUPERIOR INDUSTRIES LOWERS ESTIMATE FOR PROFIT
Date: 21 September 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Superior Industries, maker of vehicle wheels, says profit for third quarter will be about half that of analysts' estimates because of factory start-up delays and declining auto production (S)
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