From left, senior broadcast producer Mary Murphy, executive producer Josh Howard, senior vice president for prime time Betsy West, and producer Mary Mapes. (AP, Reuters File Photos)

4 fired at CBS for report on Bush

Lack of scrutiny, rush to broadcast found

By Mark Jurkowitz

Globe Staff / January 11, 2005

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Four months after it aired the now-infamous "60 Minutes Wednesday" segment that used disputed documents to raise questions about President Bush's service record, CBS fired four employees yesterday and released a scathing independent postmortem that describes the story's journalistic failings. (Full article: 1317 words)