Finkelstein should know better... a settlement with RATher will be made before this gets dug up again.
Finkelstein should know better... a settlement with RATher will be made before this gets dug up again."
The line you quote is Goldberg's, not Finkelstein's. Goldberg himself suggests that the case is very unlikely to go to trial, but if it ever did it would put CBS in the position described. By the way, Finkelstein = me, governs.
FYI...Finklestein IS governsleastgovernsbest, the writer of the column.
CBS basically has two options:
1. Settle for as low as they can negotiate.
2. Go nuclear and absolutely bury Rather.
If CBS settles, I am sure that the settlement would have to include acceptance of full blame for the TANG report debacle. Above everything, the vain Rather wants his reputation back. In other words, CBS would essentially have to cop to being incompetent and untrustworthy while painting Rather as the unwitting fall guy.
On the other hand, if CBS can successfully bury Rather and pin the whole debacle on him and his crew (Mapes, et al), then the network could actually emerge looking like the victim of Rather’s incompetence and rabid anti-GOP political agenda.
It will be interesting to see where this goes. If I was running CBS I might just look at Rather’s crazy lawsuit gambit as a manna-from-heaven opportunity to wipe my network’s hands clean of it’s most disgraceful scandal. THANK YOU, Dan Rather!