Clouds Hover at CBS News; Network Braces for Memogate Investigation.(TV Currents)

From: TelevisionWeek | Date: September 27, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: Michele Greppi

After two weeks of crisis, the outward calm that has settled over CBS News, the network and its affiliates promises to be short and fragile.

It will last until results of an investigation into the inclusion of apparently bogus documents in a Sept. 8 "60 Minutes'' story about President Bush's performance in the Texas Air National Guard are submitted to CBS-or until another outbreak of finger-pointing and backbiting within CBS News.

Since all the big bombshells appear to have been revealed, albeit not resolved, during the press and political ...

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