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Connie Chung says she was caught off-guard when she heard the news on Sunday: Dan Rather, "The CBS Evening News's former solo act," would appear Monday night without her. Chung's abrupt removal as co-anchor of the once-vaunted newscastends an uneasy two-year partnership during which viewership plunged. (She turned down a demotion to weekend anchor.) Now, with equally grim prospects for her weekly news magazine, "Eye to Eye with Connie Chung," she's looking to get out. "I'm asking for a mutually agreeable separation," she said. "I'm hopeful." At the end of Monday...
...latest controversy arose after the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19. Rather was on vacation at the time, at a resort in Midland, Texas, but when he called CBS News executives shortly after the bombing to offer his services, he was told thanks, but no thanks. Chung, it seems, was already on her way from Sacramento, California, where she had been anchoring the Evening News. Never mind that field reporting is Rather's forte, that Oklahoma City was in his neck of the woods, or that the story was big enough for two anchors. There are egos to deal with...
...make matters worse, Chung managed to offend some Oklahoma viewers with a few innocuous questions to the city's assistant fire chief about the community's ability to handle the crisis; cbs News was forced to reel her back to New York City after just three days. The only good thing to come out of her assignment was that the proceeds from T shirts asking WHO THE HELL IS CONNIE CHUNG? went to the disaster-relief efforts...
...While CBS News executives remained incommunicado last week, Chung insisted that all is well between her and Rather. "We talk to each other all the time," Chung told TIME. "But neither of us would be worth our mustard if we didn't want to cover all the stories that...
Still, in the words of a longtime staff member, there's a "palpable tension" in the CBS newsroom. From the executive suites to the cafeteria lines, the conversation at CBS News is about what to do with Connie and Dan. Dump her, keep him? Dump him, keep her? Dump them both and bring in Ed Bradley from 60 Minutes? The talk spilled over to Don Imus' nationally syndicated radio show two weeks ago, when professional curmudgeon Andy Rooney called the Rather-Chung teaming "the worst network-news mistake since ABC paired Barbara Walters with Harry Reasoner...