Rather Escalates Feud With Ex-CBS Boss

[Herman Munster]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070612/D8PNI37O0.html

NEW YORK (AP) - Former CBS news anchor Dan Rather escalated a feud with his former employer Tuesday, saying CBS Corp. (CBS) (CBS) Chief Executive Leslie Moonves "doesn't know about news."

Moonves had said earlier Rather's remarks that the network was "tarting" up its newscast with Katie Couric, Rather's successor, were "sexist."

The spat started Monday when Rather, speaking by phone on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program with Joe Scarborough, said CBS had made the mistake of taking the evening news broadcast and "dumbing it down, tarting it up," and playing up topics such as celebrities over war coverage.

While referring to Couric as a "nice person," Rather said "the mistake was to try to bring the 'Today' show ethos to the 'Evening News,' and to dumb it down, tart it up in hopes of attracting a younger audience."

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

1. Nice. K & R.

Dan Rather vs. the idiots at CBS who thought that Murrow/Cronkite/Rather's legacies were best followed by Katie Couric.

:popcorn: MKJ

[annabanana]

2. Moonves is an idiot...

It was clear that Rather was talking about the NEWS being "tarted up".. He wasn't talking about Couric.

Rather is right.. Les is clueless.

[Warpy]

3. "Tarting up" was an unfortunate choice of words, but that's

exactly what they did with the new format, one more suited to tabloids than to news. Oh, it's appropriate to the new content of that program, but it's still sad to see.

Moonves remains an idiot.