Dan Rather, the Category 5 newsman, is on a collision course with Guantánamo Bay.
“When war descends, whether it’s a so-called asymmetrical war or some other kind, we know that innocents get swept up,” said Mr. Rather. “There are, as we speak, 21 detainees still there in Guantánamo who have been cleared and ordered Read More
“We could have fixed this and moved on,” wrote Josh Howard. “Now we’re all fucked.” It was the morning of Friday, September 17, 2004 and Mr. Howard, the then-executive producer of 60 Minutes Wednesday was sitting at his computer, writing an email to his colleague Jill Landes, who was also, at the time, a Read More
The discovery process in Dan Rather‘s ongoing $70 million lawsuit against his former employers at CBS and Viacom continues to dig up internal documents that network executives would probably prefer to keep out of the public eye.
Yesterday, The Observer sifted through the latest batch submitted into court.
One interesting nugget: according Read More
A video gallery of newsmen and women Read More
Since its inception in the fall of 2006, HDNet’s Dan Rather Reports has served as a long-form showcase for the insatiable reporting appetites of one Category-5 newsman—namely, Mr. Rather.
But according to sources, the program’s executive producer Wayne Nelson wants to upgrade from the current solo configuration to an ensemble cast and has recently Read More
John Koblin looks at editors who moonlight as writers, and talks to The New Yorker‘s David Remnick who says, "As much as I love editing, reporting and writing is a way for me to get out of the house a little bit, metaphorically… Otherwise, it’s just the apartment and the office." Plus: As Read More
On Jan. 10, 2005, CBS President Leslie Moonves sent his employees a novella-length memo with the subject line “The Independent Panel Issues its report.”
CBS had formed said independent panel months earlier, in the fall of 2004, in order to investigate the development, preparation and aftermath of Dan Rather and company’s flawed report on Read More
More from the Rather v. CBS docs.
On Tuesday, December 7, 2004, former U.S. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh sent an e-mail to Dan Bartlett, then the White House communications director.
At the time, Mr. Thornburgh was heading up an independent panel, established by CBS, to investigate the flawed 60 Minutes Wednesday story about President Read More
This week, Dan Rather’s legal team submitted a memorandum to the judge overseeing Mr. Rather’s $70 million civil lawsuit against his former employers, which for the first time made public some of the thousands of documents that CBS has already turned over in the ongoing discovery process.
The Media Mob is still making its way Read More
Dan Rather has signed on with a French TV network to report on the final days of the 2008 presidential election, Variety‘s Elsa Keslassy reports (from Paris!).
From the article:
Rather will appear live from New York on Nov. 2 in the mag "Dimanche Plus" dedicated to the elections.
He will then host Read More
