WHAT A HEEL!: Cee-BS Blinks In Blog Brouhaha
Linda Mason, Senior Vice President of Special Projects for CBS News Corporation was forced to apologize (kinda) to viewer who received a snippy response to an e-mail criticizing anchor Katie Couric's reporting from Iraq. Reports WebProNews.com, the e-mailed reply, “implied Errol Siegel of Austin, Texas, who's in the email security business, was unintelligent and the author of it devalued information found on blogs.”
At first, CBS did not own up to the e-mail, but IP tracking revealed that it had come from inside the MSM company’s New York headquarters.
When Siegel demanded an apology, and “clarification of CBS's position on blogs and those that read and contribute to them,” Mason issued this glad-handing statement:
“Thank you for contacting us directly about the confusion over the source of an email you were sent in response to your thoughts on the CBS EVENING NEWS in the Mid-East. On behalf of CBS News, I want to confirm to you that the email reply you received did come from someone at CBS. The identity of that person is being investigated and the matter is being taken very seriously.
"Let me also note that CBS News has its own blog, Public Eye, where we encourage viewer input. We also read responses on Evening.CBSNews.com. We welcome a dialogue with the public and we are very sorry you received the response you did, but we thank you for calling it to our attention so we can correct the situation.
No doubt CBS’s mystery e-mailer meant to exempt the Public Eye blog, from his or her scorn. But wouldn’t it be delicious if the mystery blog critic is none other than Couric herself, dishing out the derision she’s been on the receiving end of from bloggers for months (second item)?
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