dan rather files $70 million lawsuit against cbs

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

just heard on cnn. he will be on larry king tomorrow.

edit: i'm behind the times here's link on LBN

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2997471&mesg_id=2997471

[no_hypocrisy]

1. It's not enough.

Dan deserves more than that.

[mmonk]

2. Good.

[lpbk2713]

3. WTG Dan

But these days I don't think CBS is worth 70 Mil.

[Warpy]

11. Their news department sure isn't

but the parent corporation is doing very, very well.

My stock has gone noplace but up since I dumped two other communications stocks for it a year and a half ago.

The news department isn't worth a finger click on the remote, much less 70 million dollars.

On edit: Freeperish fingers forcing flagrant flubs.

[AnotherGreenWorld]

4. Excellent.

I hope he wins.

[Cha]

5. That took a while ..the wheels of

Justice move slooooooooooow-ly if at all.

He's bound to have strong reasons..I hope he makes the chickenshithawk lovers of katie couric pay up the nose..yeah, you les.

[in_cog_ni_to]

6. WOW!!! I wonder on what grounds? I'm going to go Google it.

Go, Dan, Go!!!!!!

[xchrom]

7. very cool! n/t

[Emit]

8. Finally. n/t

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. "Rather Files $70 Million Lawsuit Against CBS" Here's the article:

Rather Files $70 Million Lawsuit Against CBS


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By JACQUES STEINBERG
Published: September 20, 2007

Dan Rather, whose career at CBS News ground to an inglorious end 15 months ago over his role in an unsubstantiated report questioning President Bush’s Vietnam-era National Guard service, filed a $70 million lawsuit this afternoon against the network, its corporate parent and three of his former superiors.

Mr. Rather, 75, asserts that the network violated his contract by giving him insufficient airtime on “60 Minutes” after forcing him to step down as anchor of the “CBS Evening News” in March 2005. He also contends that the network committed fraud by commissioning a “biased” and incomplete investigation of the flawed Guard broadcast and, in the process, “seriously damaged his reputation.” As plaintiffs, the suit names CBS and its chief executive, Leslie Moonves; Viacom and its executive chairman, Sumner Redstone; and Andrew Heyward, the former president of CBS News.

In the suit, filed this afternoon in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, Mr. Rather charges that CBS and its executives made him “a scapegoat” in an attempt “to pacify the White House,” though the formal complaint presents virtually no direct evidence to that effect. To buttress this claim, Mr. Rather quotes the executive who oversaw his regular segment on CBS Radio, telling Mr. Rather in November 2004 that he was losing that slot, effective immediately, because of “pressure from ‘the right wing.’ ”

He also continues to take vehement issue with the appointment by CBS of Richard Thornburgh, an attorney general in the administration of the elder President Bush, as one of the two outside panelists given the job of reviewing how the disputed broadcast had been prepared. <snip>



http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/20/business/media/19cnd-rather.html?ex=1347940800&en=54798e49598773d5&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

[madfloridian]

10. Good for him and good for his HD Net hourly show.

He is getting his voice back.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

12. I am hoping that finally the truth about AWOL Shrub will come out with this! eom

[ljm2002]

13. Good for him!

Even if he does not win, this should shed some much-needed light on the whole fiasco.

It would have been easy for him to just let it drop, after all he has plenty of money. But he'a a real journalist, and his reputation has been besmirched big time.

Here's hoping he prevails.

[UTUSN]

14. K&R #4 for, I'm of 2 minds. 1, Go Dan go!!1 Two, he's finishing off the hit job on CBS

I've said before, like an innocent person would scream and holler and throw a hissyfit, why didn't Dan throw himself into investigating who was behind the AWOL trap set for him---Roger STONE, or whatever KKKarl flying monkey?

O.K., I'm of THREE minds on this. Maybe it will all come out in Dan's suit.