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HOLLYWOOD - CBS News President Andrew Heyward admitted yesterday that he had no answers to why the "CBS Evening News with Dan Rather" continues to struggle in the ratings. But he stood by Rather, who has been at the helm of the newscast since 1981. The newscast runs a poor third among the networks and a few weeks ago logged its lowest ratings in at least a decade, if not ever. "I'm frankly a little bit puzzled by it," Heyward told members of the Television Critics Association yesterday. "The program journalistically, in my view, is excellent. Dan has had a...

Jul 20, 2003 CBS May Have Erred in Pursuit of Lynch Interview, Executive Says By Lynn Elber The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - CBS may have erred in raising the possibility of a TV movie while trying to win a news interview with former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch, CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves said Sunday. "Maybe that went over the line. That was not respecting, possibly, the sanctity of CBS News," Moonves told a meeting of the Television Critics Association. Pfc. Lynch, who has yet to publicly tell the story of her capture in southern Iraq and subsequent rescue...

<p>I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out how to "get" you to talk to me instead of all those others. You're now "the get," you know, as in The Interview to get.</p> <p>So what can I offer? I know you've gotten enough gifts and money to, well, add a second story, four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a utility room, family room and a new porch with wheelchair access to your parents' house. Cool.</p>

I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out how to "get" you to talk to (beg ital) me instead of all those others. You're now "the get," you know, as in The Interview to get. So what can I offer? I know you've gotten enough gifts and money to, well, add a second story, four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a utility room, family room and a new porch with wheelchair access to your parents' house. Cool. I also read that your house is being wired for Internet access, that you've been offered a free Hawaii vacation and that the...

When two of the most biased members of the leftist media establishment snipe at each other's lack of ethics, it's time to kick back, sip a tall cool one and enjoy a good laugh. CBS News, home of such useful idiots as Dan Rather and Mike Wallace, is furious that the New York Times, the scandal-plagued favorite newspaper of Soviet mass murderer Josef Stalin and present-day lovers of fiction everywhere, criticized its latest sleaze in bagging an interview with U.S. Army Pvt. Jessica Lynch. "Unlike the New York Times' own ethical problems, there is no question about the accuracy...

June 16, 2003 To Interview Former P.O.W., CBS Dangles Stardom By JIM RUTENBERG [T] he race to land the most sought-after interview of the war in Iraq intensified as soon as Pfc. Jessica D. Lynch arrived at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in April, after her rescue from an Iraqi hospital. Katie Couric of NBC News sent Private Lynch, now 20, a bundle of patriotic books, including Rudolph W. Giuliani's memoir, "Leadership." Diane Sawyer, of ABC News, sent a locket with a photograph of Private Lynch's family home in Palestine, W. Va. But CBS News, in addition to the...

<p>In my business, it's called "The Get." It’s the big interview, the big exclusive, the big one-on-one with the name of the moment for the powwow of the moment.</p> <p>Right now, Private Jessica D. Lynch is the big get and this is her moment.</p>