The Nation, August 30th, 1986
Reckless Disregard: CBS vs. "The New Yorker'
Among the materials burdening the desk of William Shawn, venerable editor of The New Yorker, is an immense communication from CBS, signed by Van Gordon Sauter, president of CBS News. It concerns Renata Adler's two articles published in that magazine in June on the Westmoreland libel trial, which arose out of George Crile's documentary for CBS, "The Uncounted Enemy.' Adler launched a furious assault on Crile's documentary and on CBS's case as put forward in Federal court, but as I remarked in this space a few weeks ago, her reporting was sloppy an...
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