"Good Evening, this is Dhan al-Rathar for CBS News.
Tonight's Headlines: "Iraq, a lost cause. Bush, How many cabinet officials will be indicted? and The National Guard finds copies of renderings of microfiches of xerox's of Bush's service record."
Posted on 10/27/2005 2:05:00 PM PDT by grundle
The chairman of CBS, Leslie Moonves, announced today that he was replacing the longtime president of CBS News, Andrew Heyward, with the longtime president of the network's sports division, Sean McManus.
Mr. McManus will face challenges that simply did not exist in Mr. Arledge's time, as CBS - and other television news divisions, to say nothing of newspapers - struggle to find new ways to captivate viewers who are increasingly defecting to newer outlets like Fox News and Yahoo, and increasingly skeptical of journalists as a whole.
Last fall, the news division was upended by the fallout from a report, first broadcast on the weeknight edition of "60 Minutes," that purported to present new details about the Vietnam-era National Guard service of President Bush but was later discredited after the network acknowledged it could not vouch for the documents on which it was based.
Mr. Heyward - who, at least initially, fiercely defended the report and the documents, despite fundamental questions raised immediately about their authenticity - managed to hold on to his job in the months afterward. But few others involved in the production of the report did. Dan Rather, the correspondent on the report and the anchor of the "CBS Evening News" for nearly a quarter century, stepped down as anchor in the spring, a year earlier than he had planned.
Meanwhile, after an outside panel concluded that the disputed report had been rushed onto the air under competitive pressure and never should have been broadcast, Mr. Moonves fired the segment producer, Mary Mapes, and demanded the resignations of three other top journalists, including Betsy West, a senior vice president, who was one of Mr. Heyward's chief deputies.
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To prepare their defenses against the various fraud and counterfeiting charges that should be heading their way?
Are they going blame the Freepers just YET
I think FR going be new Karl Rove
CBS Sports is the one part of CBS that I enjoy (with apologies to CSI & Survivor fans) - I suspect Mr. McManus has earned this promotion
See backhoe's memoir for the answer to "How?" and "Why?".
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1015980/posts
Thanks Howlin, Buckhead and every one else!
Bring it on. Klinton was none too fond of us, either.
Hmm I don't know if "skeptical" is the correct word.
I mean now if you see a Layer and a Journalist standing in the road - from whom do you swerve to avoid hitting??
Heck it's a tough choice. Also, do you even consider using the brakes?
"Good Evening, this is Dhan al-Rathar for CBS News.
Tonight's Headlines: "Iraq, a lost cause. Bush, How many cabinet officials will be indicted? and The National Guard finds copies of renderings of microfiches of xerox's of Bush's service record."
Hey Heyward, don't let the door bruise your rump on the way out.
Off thread, but does anyone know what happened to our
famous Bagdad Bob? I'm surprized that he's not in NY at some studio....
I'd repeatedly said that Heyward should've been canned the day Rather went to Texas to "break that story". The lapse in judgment was stupefying.
Here are some theories:
http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/mss_jobs.html
Of course I'd use the brakes. It's just a matter of when.
And after using the brakes, I'd use reverse. And then the brakes again. And then back into first. And repeat as necessary.
What's the point of leaving a job half done?
This is the changing of the gaurd. CBS (the oldstream media) no longer gets to decide what the politically correct news shall be for the day. The newstream media (Fox, talkradio, and the blogs) will reveal what is really happening out there in our world. In other words, we will do their job for them.
I dunno. You know what they say about teaching old dogs new tricks.
You know that guy could make millions doing commercials, actually, he would be a hoot to watch.
Hmmm, I wonder if Heyward is who Neal Cavuto was referring to in his closing remarks when he was musing about karma and someone who was fired yesterday and deserved it because of the way this person stabbed his co-workers in the back on his climb to the top?
He'd be a hoot on "Got Milk?"
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