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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...
Stringer also said in his deposition that he thought Westmoreland "was a good general." Yet when discussing with Kowet possible shortcomings in the CBS reporting procedures, Stringer concedes, "I must say I don't feel desperately sorry, and this is an awful thing to say, because I think Westmoreland should have been fired years ago." Said Westmoreland's attorney Dan Burt last week: "The tapes show that Howard Stringer didn't believe the show was accurate, and that he didn't care because he wanted to hook Westmoreland." CBS Lawyer David Boies disagreed, arguing that...
...smear." After an internal investigation the network concluded that the substance of the program was accurate but that some of the magazine's criticisms about the methods used in producing it were valid. Kowet subsequently seemed to shift from being a reporter to acting as an advocate for Westmoreland. This month he published a scathing book about the program, A Matter of Honor, portions of which are poorly documented at best...
...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...
...evidence in court trials because such involvement seriously impinges on the ability to gather news. Nor would Kowet have needed to spend his own money fighting the subpoenas: when he left TV Guide, his tapes and notes became the property of the magazine, which later refused a Westmoreland subpoena for them...