CBS CEO Leslie Moonves has said that Dan Rather’s remarks about the CBS Evening News were “sexist.” The flap started when Rather told Joe Scarborough in a phoner on Morning Joe that “the [network’s] 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.” Rather did also say that Katie Couric was a “nice person,” but Moonves appears to have interpreted Rather’s “tart” remark as a personal shot at Couric and not directed at the entire newscast product, which Rather bemoaned for playing up topics such as celebrities over war coverage.
Update: Here’s the video of the Rather interview from MSNBC.com
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