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January 31, 2005

A Must-Read for Rathergate Junkies

Posted by Bill

New York Magazine reveals the internal strife and juicy tidbits of a post-Rathergate CBS News. RatherBiased highlights some of the most interesting aspects of the story:

* Dan Rather has been observed wandering the hallways of CBS News muttering "elections have consequences," referring to Bush-Kerry presidential race.
* Rather was more than just a figurehead for the story:
"Much has been made of Rather's failure to see the piece before it aired, but that fact isn't very meaningful; 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. He was hardly the uninformed mouthpiece portrayed in the media."

* The producers and correspondents behind the original "60 Minutes" show may not want Rather moving in with them after he vacates the "Evening News" anchor chair. "The correspondents at the Sunday show don�t want Rather on their show, and Moonves doesn�t seem to want him there either," an anonymous CBS News exec is quoted as saying.

Read the summary or the article. Poor Dan;* sounds like he's "two hands worth of white knuckle still hanging ten."

* That sympathy wasn't entirely sincere. FYI.

Posted by Bill at January 31, 2005 10:34 AM | TrackBack (2)

Comments

Heard on Sirius radio this morning that the three other people asked to leave aren't. They aren't in the office, and have hired a lawyer. The announcer said that their story is it was all Mapes' doing.

Hope it *does* go to court. We will probably learn way more than we know know about what happened.

Posted by: leelu at January 31, 2005 02:37 PM

Hey, he wasn't muttering to himself, he was talking to Edward R Murrow's ghost.

Gotta love the litigious left. Let's all pray this goes to a big, splashy trial!

Remember those first few hours when the story broke and no one knew where this was headed? Ahhhhhhhh, sweet memories. Great job being ahead of the pack on the expert interview.

Posted by: TallDave at February 1, 2005 01:21 PM