Courage
by David Benzion · 03/05/2008 12:27 pmJeez, this is almost too humiliating for even me to enjoy [especially painful blows to the gut highlighted in bold by LST]:
Everybody who is anybody in television news — with one glaring omission — showed up for last week’s twentieth-anniversary blowout for 48 Hours, which, after 60 Minutes, is CBS News’ most durable magazine program. On hand for the party in the twentieth-floor lounge at 230 Fifth Avenue were CBS chairman Leslie Moonves, CBS News president Sean McManus, 48 Hours executive producer Susan Zirinsky, former CBS president Sir Howard Stringer, and former news president Andrew Heyward.
Missing was Dan Rather.
The original anchor of 48 Hours — who, along with Stringer, got the show off the ground in 1986 with a highly rated pilot, “48 Hours on Crack Street,” and pushed the network suits to put it on the weekly schedule — wasn’t invited. In an awkward phone call before the celebration, Zirinsky explained to Rather that he couldn’t come under the circumstances.
The 76-year-old Rather, who had read about the party on the Internet, is, of course, suing the network for $70 million, alleging wrongful termination and a host of other abuses. He left CBS in 2006 after being forced out of his 24-year anchor job at CBS Evening News (along with fourteen years anchoring 48 Hours) amid a scandal involving allegedly forged documents used in Rather’s notorious pre-election 2004 60 Minutes report on President Bush’s National Guard service.
Almost.
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Good Riddance!!
“allegedly” forged documents? Come on - this isn’t an allegation - it is a FACT that the documents were forged.
Ah, the dignity of (forced) retirement.
as opposed to…….
haha - “read about it on the internet”
Rather is even out of touch with his own small sphere of influence.
Almost?
Not even close.
:>)
What’s funny is that Dan Rather was 3rd down the list to replace Cronkite. The network decided that Eric Severeid was too old. The next choice was my cousin, Neil Strasser. Neil at that time was the WH reporter for CBS. They brought Neil up to NYC for the interviews. They wanted him, but Neil said he wasn’t going to bring his family up in NYC, and didn’t want the job. Cronkite was so furious they banished Neil to Moscow for the next 5 years. He was so dejected that alcoholism took its toll and pretty much ended his career. So Dan Rather ended up with the job.
Hope he verified with no less than three independent internet web sources that a party indeed was held.
Wow…… they are avoiding Rather like the plague. I have to admit, as much as I am unhappy with his actions, on a personal level, I feel bad for him. What a way to end your career, shunned.
I’ll bet Bill Paley is rolling in his grave seeing what these mental midgets have done to his Tiffany Network. Moonves, Heyward and McManus are just plain fools.
Anyone catch Dan’s new shot on HDnet? Yeah, I didn’t think so.
BigIron - Sorry to hear about your cousin. So much for the compassion of liberals like Cronkite, huh? Cronkite is the epitome of evil, and always has been. He’s just like jimmy carter. Old warhorse liberals who did their best to destroy America.
Is this a fake but true story of Mr. Rather?
PinHead (Same number of letters & syllables. Benzion needs to rename the column)