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France and Britain have lodged diplomatic protests with Pretoria criticizing the new curbs on press freedom. So have most major news organizations. CBS News Anchorman Dan Rather, who is chairman of the freedom of information committee of the Television and Radio Working Press Assoc., urged Botha to rescind...
...Stress at CBS...
...CBS may have a legendary reputation for impeccable news coverage during the Ed Murrow period [PRESS, Nov. 4], but its firing practices are another story, then as now. In 1937 I was taken to lunch at Delmonico's by Sterling Fisher, then head of CBS's public affairs department. He said he wanted me there because he had a nasty job to perform. He had to fire CBS Newsman H.V. Kaltenborn, who was causing too much trouble with his anti-Hitler broadcasts. In the middle of lunch, Fisher told "H.V." he was through. At this point, before dessert...
...company that covers the news, CBS has lately been making a remarkable number of headlines on its own. Last week the communications giant closed its toy, computer software and theatrical-film businesses, announced the early retirement of the No. 2 executive in its broadcast group and reported its first quarterly loss ($114.1 million) since the early days of the company in the 1930s...
...CBS has been in trouble since the summer, when Atlanta Entrepreneur Ted Turner launched a $5.4 billion takeover bid. The company escaped Turner's clutches by buying back 21% of its stock, but it did that by taking on increased debt, which has forced the firm to cut expenses and trim its staff...