Word: crile
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...interview, Stringer confides with startling candor his doubts about Producer George Crile, principal reporter for the 1982 documentary, The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, that prompted the Westmoreland suit. "We have our own suspicions about George Crile," says Stringer, speaking supposedly off the record shortly after the broadcast. Speculating about whether Crile might have cut corners in his reporting, Stringer remarks, "I should have known I wouldn't get fair journalism off him." As executive producer of the show, Stringer is expected to be a key witness in CBS'S defense, but his taped words seem to contradict...
Kowet taped the conversation with Stringer without his knowledge. That practice, while not illegal in New York State, is a clear breach of journalistic ethics and is barred by most responsible news organizations. (Similar behavior by Crile was cited by CBS as a reason for suspending him last June.) In addition, Kowet turned over the Stringer tape, and 36 others, to Westmoreland's attorneys. Kowet argues that the material had been subpoenaed by the general's lawyers, and adds that he did not resist the demand because "I am not going to spend one red cent in defense...
Written by Journalist Don Kowet, the book is a critical analysis of a January 1982 CBS Reports show, reported by Correspondent Mike Wallace and Producer George Crile. The program accused General Westmoreland, the commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, of participating in a "conspiracy at the highest levels of American military intelligence" to underreport enemy troop strength in order to create the impression that the U.S. was winning the war. Kowet first wrote about the documentary in a 1982 article he co-authored for TV Guide with Reporter Sally Bedell Smith (now at the New York Times). The article...
...picture painted in the TV Guide piece pales by comparison with Kowet's book. According to Kowet, Wallace had only a glancing knowledge of the complex issues involved in the documentary, and was reading from cue cards questions written by Crile when he conducted the hard-hitting interview with General Westmoreland that is seen in the broadcast. CBS's most fearsome interrogator, Kowet claims, was little more than "a puppet propped on George Crile's knee." Kowet's conclusion: "CBS had got the story wrong...
...News, which for the first time has hired an outside public relations consultant, John Scanlon, to defend it, countered with a barrage of letters and rebuttals from Wallace, Crile and others, charging that Kowet had engaged in "pure invention" and "grotesque distortions." Among CBS's accusations: Kowet had reported as quotations more than 100 conversations without Actually talking to any of the CBS employees involved; he had fabricated an alleged telephone call in which Wallace was said to have enlisted the help of A.M. Rosenthal, executive editor of the New York Times, in downplaying critical coverage of the documentary...