CBS Wanted To Replace Dan Rather With Keith Olbermann

[LynneSin]

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0248517/

CBS Wanted To Replace Rather With Olbermann
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16 June 2008 10:41 AM, PDT

Following their decision to oust Dan Rather as anchor of The CBS Evening News, CBS News executives, including then CBS President Les Moonves and CBS News President Andrew Heyward considered replacing him with Keith Olbermann, who currently hosts Countdown on MSNBC, according to an article that will appear in the next issue of The New Yorker. According to summaries of the article that were published Sunday, Heyward initially objected to Olbermann's approach, which included a closing three-minute commentary on the day's events. According to the New Yorker article by Peter J. Boyer, which cited no sources for the meeting, Olbermann later met with Heyward's successor, Sean McManus. No details about that meeting were included in the magazine article.
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[Rick Myers]

1. Great article on Keith's career @ The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/23/080623fa_fact_boyer

Discusses the CBS News meetings...

[babylonsister]

2. The article is here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=3456506

[supernova]

3. So they wouldn't let him do his fabulous rants?

Good move for Keith to stay put. :D

[Garbo 2004]

4. The New Yorker article has already been available online. Keith was considered, not

necessarily that CBS "wanted" KO to replace Rather. If they really wanted to hire him presumably they would have done so. Link to New Yorker article: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/23/080623fa_fact_boyer?currentPage=all

[napi21]

5. As much as I like KO, he's NOT an investigative reporter!

Rather used to travel all over the world to cover stories. Too bad they didn't keep Dan!

[Clark2008]

6. But that's not what anchoring the news is about anymore

and hasn't been for a million years - or so it seems.

The anchor is a news reader, mostly, and, at times, an interviewer. That's it.

[NashVegas]

7. Where Was Olbermann On the TANG Story? Anyone?

Or had he not yet taken a vocal turn to the left?