Rather Suit Raises Questions
In retrospect it was probably a bad idea for Les Moonves to play such a public role in smacking down each and every tepid, impotent swipe that Dan Rather took at CBS. It only made the eccentric, unpredictable Dan Rather even more surly. It also strengthened Howard Stern’s old claims that Viacom has a dodgy relationship with the talent (And, for that matter, with Sumner’s various would-be successors).
The Rather-versus-CBS lawsuit will dredge up all sorts of interesting questions that were avoided by the diplomatic gymnastics of the Thornburgh-Boccardi
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