Rather and his team were also exonerated of any political agenda. But the report was nonetheless severe on the network for its failings."This was arguably the greatest embarrassment in the history of CBS News' otherwise wonderful journalistic tradition," says Andrew Heyward, who was president of CBS News at the time. He was originally a defendant in the Rather lawsuit but was dropped by the judge in the case. |
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)