CBS chairman Les Moonves suggests that aggressively pursuing Private Jessica Lynch for a movie of the week immediately following her return from Iraq may have been "over the line," and perhaps "failed to respect the sanctity of CBS news." [Read: even the focus groups in Fort Worth thought it was in bad taste.] Moonves' apology follows the leaking of a memo to the NYT in which CBS offered Lynch a movie of the week, a book deal, and potential projects with MTV. Next time, they'll presumably do things a little differently. Like encrypt the deal memo and use focus groups in Tallahassee.
CBS may have erred in pursuit of Lynch interview, CBS executive says [AP via Drudge]