Mary Mapes was an award-winning television news producer and reporter for twenty-five years, fifteen of them for CBS News, primarily for CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and 60 Minutes II.

607 likes. Her gallop through such Mapes-produced ‘60 Minutes II' scoops as securing Karla Faye Tucker's death row interview or tracking down Strom Thurmond's black illegitimate daughter or exposing the atrocities of Abu Ghraib gives us a heart-racing glimpse of a resourceful TV pro in her fearless prime.” —“TRUTH AND DUTY is a plainspoken…oftentimes sympathetic look at how the National Guard story came to be and why it fell apart.” —“Ms. In 2004, working with Dan Rather at 60 Minutes II, her team broke the story of prison abuse at Abu Ghraib. * Features a new chapter for the trade paper editionSign up to receive information about new books, author events, and special offers.Watch the trailer for Truth, starring Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Topher Grace and Elizabeth Moss. Mary Mapes. She lives in Dallas, Texas. Apparently, there was no category for which Michael Moore was eligible.Not even “Most likely to eat Mr. Peabody — and Sherman too”? mary mapes enemiga george w bushTxell Partal Han pasado más de diez años desde que la cadena americana CBS despidiera a la productora Mary Mapes. “Ms.

CBS Wins Peabody for Abu Ghraib Report (Reuters) CBS News won a Peabody … At 20 she married William Dodge, a The firestorm that followed the broadcast led not only to Mapes' firing and Rather's stepping down from his anchor chair a year early, but to an unprecedented "internal" inquiry into the story -- chaired by former Reagan Attorney General Richard Thornburgh.Peopled with an historic and colorful cast of characters—from Karl Rove to Summer Redstone to John Kerry to Col. Bobby Hodges -- this groundbreaking book about how the television news is made (and unmade) made headlines itself when first published. Mary Mapes's biography, bibliography, list of books, with the current titles, summaries, covers, excerpts, author notes, and availability. Thirty-two awards will be handed out at the ceremony May 16. But this, it turns out, is only part of the story. Mapes details her rise and fall with a considerable amount of flair and self-deprecating humor…Simply put, she is woman, hear her roar--on behalf of both her instilled patriotism and her journalistic integrity….TRUTH AND DUTY is a good read from start to finish.” —“Mapes musters a controlled, readable narrative about the story that became her professional undoing…the story…builds by increments (including) the memos themselves, and how they mesh--in ways large and small, in nuance and substance--with Bush's official Guard records.” —“It's an illuminating look into journalism and the challenges reporters face in an era of blogging, instant Internet analysis, corporate ownership and network news starts.” —“In…TRUTH AND DUTY, [Mapes] comes across as the kind of rip-snorting rodeo rider of the news I would have killed to work with as an editor.

Mapes talks for the first time about the riveting behind-the-scenes action at CBS during this frenzied period and exposes some of the largest political and social controversies that have broken in this new … For twenty five years, Mary Mapes has been an award-winning television producer and reporter -- the last fifteen of them for CBS News, principally for the But it was Dan Rather's lightning rod of a story on George W. Bush's National Guard Service that brought Mapes into an unwanted limelight. Mary Mapes Dan Rather, Mary Mapes, and Jon Stewart have won Peabody Awards for excellence in broadcasting.CBS News won a Peabody Award on Thursday for its report on abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, a story anchored by Dan Rather and produced by Mary Mapes, who was later fired by CBS for her role in the story about President Bush’s military service.Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart won his second Peabody Award, for his satiric take on the 2004 election campaign, while HBO’s Western “Deadwood” also won.The George Foster Peabody awards, for broadcasting excellence in both news and entertainment, are given by the University of Georgia.