Former CBS Information anchor Dan Moderately is about to be interviewed April 25 on CBS Sunday Morning 18 years after his controversial exit from the community.
The episode logline reads, “Lee Cowan talks with former CBS Information anchor Dan Moderately about his work at CBS and his life in information.”
The 92-year-old journalist exited beneath a cloud. A 60 Minutes II report in 2004 made allegations that President George W. Bush went AWOL throughout a part of his time within the Texas Air Nationwide Guard.
The Bush administration disputed the authenticity of the paperwork cited within the story. CBS investigated and located that the piece disregarded “basic journalistic ideas.” The paperwork weren’t proved to be forgeries, casting doubts on the complete incident.
Moderately was faraway from the anchor desk in 2005 earlier than being fired the next yr. Producer Mary Mapes and three information executives had been additionally let go from CBS for his or her involvement.
The controversy was dramatized within the 2015 movie Fact starring Cate Blanchett as Mapes and Robert Redford as Moderately. The Related Press claimed CBS refused to run promoting for the film, which was primarily based off of Mapes’ memoir, Fact and Responsibility.
“It’s astounding how little fact there may be in Fact,” CBS spokesman Gil Schwartz stated to AP previous to the movie’s opening. “There are, in reality, too many distortions, evasions and baseless conspiracy theories to enumerate all of them. The movie tries to show gross errors of journalism and judgment into acts of heroism and martyrdom.”
Moderately disagreed, and nonetheless maintains that the story was appropriate, albeit with some procedural errors alongside the best way.
CBS Sunday Morning airs Sundays at 9 a.m. ET on CBS.