Word: tailwind
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TIME strives for its share of scoops, taking news tips wherever we might find them--and working through many other sources to confirm them and add context. Most weeks I am happy with the results, although we also have some scalps on our belt (this summer's infamous Tailwind story immediately comes to mind) that I wish weren't there. But along with the scoops and the stories of the week, we have devoted substantial resources to special reports that take you behind the headlines so you can understand how our society really works...
...terms of the fiascoes, synergy does not help us understand all that much. Synergy might have created a climate where Steve Glass could thrive, but it did not force him to lie again and again. Synergy is not even the critical factor behind CNN's botched Tailwind tale, though the fact that the story was both aired on CNN and reported in Time did magnify the damage. Still, the idea of synergy does help to explain the insanity that is the media's coverage of Zippergate. As Clinton Press Secretary Mike McCurry noted, "the press has but one speed...
...Pentagon findings came three weeks after CNN and TIME, both owned by Time Warner, retracted the Tailwind story and apologized to the veterans involved. That action followed an internal investigation by TIME and a report by attorney Floyd Abrams, who was hired by CNN to investigate the broadcast. The inquiries concluded that the story was not supported by the facts and should not have run. CNN subsequently fired producers April Oliver and Jack Smith, who have publicly continued to stand by their story. Senior executive producer Pamela Hill resigned, and CNN reprimanded Peter Arnett, the on-air reporter...
...also agreed to pay Thomas Moorer, a retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a settlement reported to be $100,000. The original program and article stated that Moorer confirmed the use of sarin during Tailwind, which he has denied...
There are still unanswered questions about Tailwind. How could such vivid, seamless reportage, quoting a number of eyewitnesses and sources, be so totally reversed, supported by quotes from other "reliable" eyewitnesses and sources? And in your apology, some sources deny that anything in the CNN-TIME story was true. One person even says, "We did not use lethal gas, and we did not kill any defectors, men, women or children." So what was a sizable contingent of heavily armed, Special Forces soldiers doing on that secret mission in Laos? Selling Girl Scout cookies? BRUCE BRASHEAR Goteborg, Sweden...