Dan Rather Barred From "48 Hours" Anniversary Party

NY Magazine:

Everybody who is anybody in television news -- with one glaring omission -- showed up for last week's twentieth-anniversary blowout for 48 Hours, which, after 60 Minutes, is CBS News' most durable magazine program. On hand for the party in the twentieth-floor lounge at 230 Fifth Avenue were CBS chairman Leslie Moonves, CBS News president Sean McManus, 48 Hours executive producer Susan Zirinsky, former CBS president Sir Howard Stringer, and former news president Andrew Heyward.

Missing was Dan Rather.

The original anchor of 48 Hours -- who, along with Stringer, got the show off the ground in 1986 with a highly rated pilot, "48 Hours on Crack Street," and pushed the network suits to put it on the weekly schedule -- wasn't invited. In an awkward phone call before the celebration, Zirinsky explained to Rather that he couldn't come under the circumstances.

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Comments

[Nutcase]

Just why would he want to party with that bunch of miscreants.

Je pense, donc je suis populiste.

[rjean]

a better ? is why would they want to party with blather...evidently THEY DONT...wise choice....

[withowlseyewatch]

The executives of CBS/all media outlets are playboys. They're chosen because they are the brightess of the bright and most preverted of the preverted. They get to be executives because they do as they are told. They are brutal commandos with no heart. They get a party to celebrate being willing to sell their very souls to the devil for the pleasures in which they love to indulge. What are their pleasure? Drugs, Money, sex with little Girls and little Boys to name a few. While you sit and watch the crap they say will be aired, they feast on the most delicate parts of a human. And what's left over...they toss to the dogs.

[Colmore]

Sounds just like the Bush administration!! Rather is too honest to be accepted by this crew.

[Colmore]

OOps! With the exception of "brightest"

[DMcD]

Truth is; These lousy back-biting CBS low-lifes couldn't face him after not standing behind him when it mattered , as they damn well should have.

[ohiomark]

Maybe he should have forged an invitation.

Hey Dan.........get over it!!

[withowlseyewatch]

What is "IT" Dan should get over. Buba? Get over the lies? Get over the coverups? Get over the deceit? Get over being shover down the toilet? Get over having your career destoryed? Get over being shunned by the company he lied day in and out for? Get over being set up? Who are you to direct any individual to get over what you imagine in your mind they get over? The man knows a lot about what the men behind the curtain are really doing. He went along and did what they wanted him to do. Why not ask him to spill the beans? Would you tell the Bushes to get over it if Rather told the truth about what he really knews about W? Hot steamy stuff Rather has to keep under the lid.

[Colmore]

Rather is lucky, look what they did to the gov. of Alabama! He was railroaded right into prison. Thanks, Karl.

[BigLib]

A "fake but accurate" invite would have got him in!

[VictorAndTim]

He's suing the network for millions of dollars. How the hell could they invite him? What's the big deal? I hope he wins his suit too, but be realistic.

[Mollye]

I really hope he wins his lawsuit!

[kipmartin]

i'm no dan rather fan either. but he made that show. its like the Simpsons without Homer.

[InternationalObserver]

No, it's like throwing a Simpson's Party and not inviting Nancy Cartwirght because she's suing FOX for a gazillion dollars.

Just take a moment to imagine the 48 Hours party when/if Rather walks into the room.

Puh-lease!

[raker]

CBS News is shit. Even their former pride and joy 60 Minutes has been converted to propaganda for Republicans and war contractors. Remember when they used to confront the bad guys? Remember when the Evening News was a real, respected news broadcast? When 48 Hours was an interesting documentary series? Now they're all shit.

[SmootyBooty]

The 'Tiffany' network is now covered in the stuff...

[edsel]

The wealthy own all the news organizations. Most of the rich folks are the repiglicans.There ya have it. Dan was rocking the boat they couldn't have that so he had to go.

[Manx]

This confirms what we've known all along - the execs at CBS have no class.

[jukesgrrl]

Agreed. I stopped watching altogether after Dan was yanked. I'm not going back. And they can chock that loss up to themselves and stop blaming it on that silly woman they hired to "bring in the young viewers."