Posted on 03/04/2008 2:01:37 PM PST by abb
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.
Zirinsky declined to comment. Reached this morning, Rather — who these days anchors Dan Rather Reports on Mark Cuban's HDNet — would say only, “I’m very proud of the people who work at 48 Hours.” —Lloyd Grove
Oh boy....
I bet he amends his complaint in his lawsuit......
What a major blow this must be to Rather. How far he has fallen.
It’s a gol durn conspiracy..........
Well, somebody’s gotta ping you!
Heeheeeeeeeheeeeeeeeee, couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy...........
Last time I heard Dan talking on the tube, a couple weeks ago, he sounded slurred and disoriented. (I mean more than usual). Maybe going senile or just off his meds.
WOW
Who knew ?????????
They should have sent him a fake invitation.
I’m sure his invitation was lost and overlooked at Kinko’s.
allegedly?
Poor Dan.....I guess he drifted off the frequency.
“What’s the frequency, Dan?”
Still fighting the good fight.......
fallen.......fallen.....
damn I’m struggling with that one! ‘fallen’ implies some kinda ‘high’ to begin with....Unlike Uncle Walt, who pulled the wool over more Americans than Clinton.....Dan never hit a high to begin with! Nope, when a blade of grass falls, nobody...nobody will hear it....nope....not fallen, just slimed to a new layer of pond scum!
And this is what most journalists over the years have been wishing wishing wishing to see. The Great Arrogant fall.
Kenneth (Er, Dan) read about it on Internet.
LOL.
Cold!
Gosh, how I love how this ego turd is getting flushed.
Most appropriate. LOL!
The MSM continues to lie. The burden of proof was on CBS to prove these documents were genuine. It couldn't do so. Therefore the documents were forgeries.
There is no question that the documents were forged. The only questions remaining are; Who is the forger? Why wasn't Dan Rather charged and convicted of conspiracy? Why did CBS escape massive sanctions?
It is amazing that the MSM still can't bring themselves to print the truth!
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