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...reacted to the TV Guide report in a manner all but unprecedented in its history. News Division President Van Gordon Sauter launched an internal investigation to re-examine every step in the assembly of the documentary. To that task he assigned Burton Benjamin, a senior executive producer. After receiving Benjamin's report, Sauter last week wrote and released an eight-page memorandum, remarkable enough for being made public and unique for its candid admissions of error. Sauter said, "CBS News stands by this broadcast." But he then conceded that the news division had committed five substantial violations...
...paid $25,000 to research and help shape the piece, yet who also appeared on air as a principal witness for the conspiracy theory. Crile and Adams had teamed to publish a story in Harper's magazine in 1975 along similar lines. Their CBS documentary, as Sauter's memorandum in effect conceded, let every "judgment call" go against Westmoreland. Whether by accident or design, admitted Sauter, "in two cases, journalistic oversight resulted in material relating to one set of events being connected to another [unrelated] set of events." Moreover, in violation of net work guidelines, the show...
...City for an interview, and that, unprepared, he was confronted by Wallace, the beneficiary of months of staff research, about events dating back some 15 years. When Westmoreland later sent documents and what he considered a "correction" to his recollections about the rate of guerrilla infiltration, CBS made what Sauter called "a judgmental decision" to ignore the added data. CBS did not go back to Westmore land as part of its internal investigation...
...round-the-clock Cable News Network and especially his most recent effort, CNN2, the headline-news service, which has been sold not only to cable systems but also to dozens of the networks' own affiliate stations. Most network executives publicly downplay creeping "Turneritis." CBS News President Van Gordon Sauter discreetly calls CNN "one of a number of factors in our thinking," but NBC's Frank confesses: "It was all Turner. That...
Thus far the new shows are of unproven value financially. ABC is not even attempting, until January, to sell commercials for the first half-hour of its show, running instead promotions and public service announcements. CBS News President Sauter says, "The people in sales are optimistic, but it's impossible to say when we can reach a break-even point." NBC, however, has already covered its bet. Says Frank: "It was easy. We just added another commercial to our regular evening news." -By William A. Henry III. Reported by Denise Worrell/New York