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Book: "Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power", by Mary Mapes

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Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power (Hardcover)
by Mary Mapes

BuzzFlash.com Review (excerpt)

This was a book that reportedly was almost kept from publication because it reveals how the corporate media so cravenly accedes to the demands of the Bush Administration. In this case, we are talking about the "L'affaire" Dan Rather and the Bush National Guard memos.

Mary Mapes was the senior producer on the story that ended up with Dan Rather's untimely retirement from CBS -- and with Mapes being fired.

...a must-read book for anyone interested in a personal account of a corporate media that is no longer beholden to the public or the truth. It's a candid and chilling account from an accomplished professional broadcast veteran. It's the victim's perspective of the slash-and-burn media intimidation politics of the Bush Administration.


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About the Author

For twenty-five years, Mary Mapes has been an award-winning television news producer and reporter, the last fifteen of them for CBS News, primarily for The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and 60 Minutes II. In 2004, her last year at CBS, in addition to the George W. Bush National Guard story, she broke the stories of the existence of Strom Thurmond's unacknowledged bi-racial daughter, Essie Mae Washington, and the Abu Ghraib prison tortures, for which she won a Peabody Award in 2005. She began her career at KIRO-TV in Seattle, Washington in 1979. She lives in Dallas, Texas.


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