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In March, the President testily questioned whether it was "news that some fellow in South Succotash has just been laid off, that he should be interviewed nationwide?" The networks have continued to say that it was. Among the most persistently critical analysts of Reaganomics is Commentator Bill Moyers of CBS...
Moyers is not the only TV figure to prompt complaints from the Administration. On Election Night, Gergen telephoned CBS White House Correspondent Lesley Stahl to condemn remarks made by her and her colleagues that the results were a referendum on Reaganomics and that it was likely to be "a Democratic...
-CBS Commentator Bill Moyers on election night, 1982
White House aides were understandably furious. Said one ranking insider: "It was the most blatantly partisan election-night coverage that I have ever seen." Presidential Spokesman David Gergen telephoned Stahl during the broadcast to complain. She relayed the protest to Rather, but it apparently had no effect on him or...
CBS Cable was the most ambitious and prestigious of the cultural cable services in the U.S., competing for a small if generally affluent audience of arts aficionados. CBS offered TV dramas featuring Sir Ralph Richardson and Peter O'Toole; a Swan Lake starring Ballerina Natalia Makarova; modern dance choreographed...