In Obit on Westmoreland, CBS News Skips His Lawsuit Against Them

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By Brent Baker
July 20, 2005 - 15:28 ET

CBS on Tuesday night managed to deliver a full story, on the passing of General William Westmoreland, without mentioning how in the early 1980s, as the Washington Post described in its obituary, “he filed a $120 million libel lawsuit” against CBS News for a CBS Reports documentary which “charged that Westmoreland directed a 'conspiracy' to 'suppress and alter critical intelligence on the enemy.'”

In what was a precursor to last year's “memogate,” the Post obit noted that in settling the lawsuit “CBS acknowledged that the documentary had been seriously flawed.” NBC and ABC raised the lawsuit.

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