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Subject: Tailwind
thebrant 5/17/2005 7:59:40 AM

Did y'all know that CNN kept the Tailwind reporter on the "payroll"? She was put up in a townhouse in Georgetown and paid to go to grad school.
Did you also know that she had Pentagon officials (3-4 stars) on videotape talking about Tailwind? They all suddenly called her and told her they were "mistaken" and apparently all used almost the exact same wording when they did so. She wanted to pull the Tailwind story off the air when her sources evaporated, but was overruled by her bosses. Then she wanted to include the "mistaken" statements to show how similar they all were; overruled again. She was stuck with a bad hand by her bosses, and then forced to take the fall when the flak hit.
I was in grad school (at another school, not hers) with one of her fellow producers, and on of my professors helped her write some of the scripts she had. And the fellow producer had spent 3 years in the Army, including Gulf I, so he wasn't some "bash the military" left wing nut.
There's more to the story than a bunch of bloggers poking holes in what finally made it on air.

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