Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What's the hurry?" Irving Berlin said on his 99th birthday when told of plans to celebrate his centennial. Last week, at the only gala he sanctioned for his 100th, the reclusive songwriter stayed home. Smart move. Taped for broadcast on CBS on May 27, the show may sound better on television than it did live in Carnegie Hall. But it did have its high points: Broadway and TV Star Nell Carter hip-hopping through Alexander's Ragtime Band, Michael Feinstein singing I Love a Piano, and Garrison Keillor reciting All Alone. But then there were the lows: tinny amplification...
...books take a harshly critical look at the turmoil that has beset CBS News in recent years. One of the villains: Dan Rather...
Trench warfare in the executive suites. Longtime employees suddenly thrown into the street. An emotional battle for the very soul of an institution. The biggest headlines at CBS News over the past few years seem to have originated mostly behind the cameras. No company's inside gossip has been the subject of more outside scrutiny than that of CBS, and the result has been a small library of books on the network's inner workings. Few, however, have offered harsher indictments than two new releases that try to affix blame for the turmoil and shifting priorities at TV's most...
...insider glimpses are candid and juicy. CBS Evening News Anchorman Dan Rather is portrayed as an erratic, insecure man, duplicitous in personal dealings. Favored correspondents reportedly are accorded a place on Rather's A list and get frequent exposure on the CBS Evening News. Those who cross him -- Morton Dean, Ed Rabel -- are forced into relative obscurity. But the chief Machiavelli in this troubled kingdom is Van Gordon Sauter, the raffishly flamboyant former president of CBS News, who is charged with virtually dismantling the great journalistic tradition fostered by Edward R. Murrow. Dallas was never so lively...
...chief enemy, it seems, was Rather. The anchorman was unfailingly polite and supportive in person, Joyce writes, but campaigned for his ouster behind his back. When the antagonism became clear to Joyce's bosses, there was little doubt about which man was expendable. "There are lots of presidents," CBS Broadcast Group President Gene Jankowski told Joyce. "There's only one Dan Rather...