Dan Rather Not Invited To His Own Party

Talk about your awkward moments: 48 Hours executive producer Susan Zirinsky was forced to call Dan Rather to tell him he wasn’t invited to last week’s twentieth-anniversary party for 48 Hours:

The original anchor of 48 Hours — who, along with [Sir Howard] 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.

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