On Monday, the Associated Press reported that CBS fired a producer who cut into the ending of the previous Wednesday's CSI: NY to air a special report on the death of Yasser Arafat.

        The report stated, "The producer responsible ignored network policy to contact a senior executive before interrupting a regularly scheduled program for a news report ... Also, with Arafat reportedly near death for several days, CBS News had left explicit instructions for how to deal with that event: run a news 'crawl' at the bottom of the screen and direct viewers to the next newscast for more information."

        It appears this producer will be off to find a new job. But Mary Mapes, the producer reportedly responsible for allowing Dan Rather on 60 Minutes II to air forged documents within a phony report on President Bush, is still on the job. So is Dan Rather. This New York Post editorial sums it up nicely.

[*** TheMediaReport.com flashback (9/12/04): The Dan Rather / 60 Minutes II forged documents controversy. ***]
 

TheMediaReport.com says ... Let's get this straight: At CBS, phony docs are O.K., but don't cut into CSI.