CBS employees discuss fabricating stories?

[BeAChooser]

http://www.ktva.com/ci_16482041

Anchorage, Alaska, (11/02/10) - KTVA today released findings of its internal assessment of allegations that the "news director for CBS Anchorage affiliate KTVA, along with assignment editor Nick McDermott, and other reporters, openly discussed creating, if not fabricating, two stories about Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, Joe Miller," as alleged by the Miller campaign. KTVA states that its review included multiple staff interviews, a review of that day's actual news coverage and a forensic transcript of the recorded audio conversation.

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As a result of this incident, the two producers involved in the recorded conversation are no longer with the station. As a matter of policy KTVA did not identify the staff members involved, however KTVA clarified that neither the News Director, Assignment Editor Nick McDermott nor any other KTVA reporters were involved in the recorded conversation as previously reported by the Miller campaign.

So now KTVA CLAIMS to have fired two people involved in the conversation ... but won't identify them. Curiously, neither of the two people who were suspected of being the ones making the comments were fired. Even more important, why fire anyone if Bever's initial press release claiming they were only talking about "what others might be able to do to cause disruption within the Miller campaign" is accurate? Something still smells here folks. Would anyone want to bet they are still lying and that no one at all was actually fired?