“CBS News won a Peabody Award on Thursday for its report on abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq,” the AP reports. The 60 Minutes story was anchored by Dan Rather and produced by Mary Mapes.
Despite the Memogate controversy later in the year, “we feel that this story stood on its own merit,” Peabody Awards director Horace Newcomb said. “It was really an important moment in television this year.”
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