Tuesday, April 1, 2003

Geraldo Rivera has ridden the edge of journalistic ethics for years. Endlessly self-promoting, his move to Fox News seemed a match made in heaven. The move he made in Iraq, however, was not. Rivera was going to be kicked out by the U.S. military for drawing a map and showing viewers where a particular unit was and would be going. This was rightly seen by the military as giving away battle plans. Fox News, rather than firing him, pleaded his case. Now Rivera will be leaving "voluntarily."

Rivera, in a statement designed to show his class, claimed he didn't know anything about it. According to a CNN.com story, he tried to blame his former employers at CNBC.

"It sounds like some rats from my former network, NBC, are trying to stab me in the back. . . MSNBC is so pathetic a cable news network that they have to do anything they can to attract attention," he said. "You can rest assured that whatever they're saying is a pack of lies."

The "pack of lies" presumably includes videotape of his broadcast. The Pentagon was not amused.
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