Regards, Ivan
Posted on 02/04/2005 7:55:30 PM PST by wagglebee
More ugly details are trickling out from behind the scenes at CBS's Rathergate fiasco, with one of the network's top on-air personalities reportedly telling a senior executive that Dan Rather should have been fired.
CBS "Early Show" host Harry Smith is said to have "pointedly confronted" news division chief Andrew Heyward during a staff meeting after three producers were asked to take the fall for Rather's blunder last month.
According to the Web site NewsBlues.com, Smith wanted to know why and how Dan Rather was still able to keep his position on "60 Minutes Wednesday."
Ratherbiased.com, which picked up the story, said Smith was unavailable for comment on his alleged showdown with Heyward.
As NewsMax reported earlier this week, tension at CBS was running high over the decision to let both Rather and Heyward keep their jobs, while producers Josh Howard, Mary Murphy and Betsy West were given a few hours to clean out their desks and vacate their offices.
The decision to paint Rather as out of the loop on the disastrous National Guard report also irked staffers who knew that "he’d read multiple drafts of the script for the story [written by producer Mapes], done most of the interviews, and had a thorough knowledge of the story’s content and point of view," according to New York Magazine.
Earlier this week CBS announced that veteran newsman and "Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer would replace Rather until CBS chairman Les Moonves settles on a permanent replacement.
Last month, Moonves said he was leaning toward a multi-anchor format for the "CBS Evening News" - and even floated the possibility that "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart might be tapped.
good one!
That "investigation" by those two lackeys, Thornburgh and the other clown, really helped CBS diffuse the situation didn't it? LOL, it was like throwing kerosene on the fire because it was such an obvious whitewash job. "Can't say for sure that the documents were fake and there's no evidence of partisanship." Unreal.
Good riddance to CBS. I think the place is on its death bed.
We know, had the shoe been on the other foot - they'd already be in jail
Oh, yeah, *that'd* be the way for CBS to overcome their bias problem... </sarcasm>
N/P..I need to go to HTML Boot camp, too. :^)
Wallace finally knows Howie Carr's audience, in spite of being out of Boston, and syndicated mostly
in the North East, his audience is not liberal, except for a few liberal gadflies.
Wallace has since refined his banter while pitching "Sunday".
Won't give up the 411 on Dan from his father, though.
The FCC can't yank Fox's license, because Fox is cable, not broadcast.
Oh, man, that's classic. LOL.
Regards, Ivan
Harry has paid his dues at CBS and is probably bitter he was not asked to do the job. For some reason I never took this guy to seriously.
Fairly easy to figure out if you have some idea of his status on the left. Don't worry about it.
I think Rather and his cohorts should be indicted for tampering with the election.
"Jon, you ignorant slut!"
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And yet...
LIBERAL Los Angeles Times Media Critic DAVID SHAW still tells us that...
RATHER's work 'Shoddy, Slipshod' not LIBERAL..?
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1227809/posts
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I recently came across a book titled "Who Killed CBS?" written in 1988. Rather has been a total hemorrhoid to the company his entire career.
He must have a safety deposit box full of some very interesting photos of very powerful people, not to have been canned years ago.
Kewl! Howdju do that?
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