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...Video A docudrama on legendary Newsman Edward R. Murrow has sparked a debate over its portrait of top CBS executives...
...Evening News has evolved. To a certain degree, all three networks' news divisions are victims of success. Once revenue losers, they started to make big money within the past decade and thus began to be treated more like businesses. Profits, for better or for worse, were something Edward R. Murrow never had to worry about. --By James Kelly. Reported by Barry Kalb/New York
...blame the duo for low morale within the division. At the same time, an internal struggle is being waged over how CBS News should be run and the way news should be presented. For some veterans, nothing less is at stake than the legacy of CBS Icon Edward R. Murrow. Says a long-term CBS correspondent: "The issue is what kind of product ought to be going out in the name of CBS News...
...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...
...addition to the Murrow movie, Section Eight has eight projects awaiting release, including an improvised sitcom about actors, premiering on Jan. 9 on HBO, and is developing a mini-series for FX comprising 10 short dramas based on the Ten Commandments, as well as 12 more films. Both partners are heavily involved in all of them. "They each put in several years of work on The Jacket," says Mandalay Pictures CEO Peter Guber about a small-budget thriller he's making with Soderbergh and Clooney, starring Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley. "They really get into the details of the business...