“Last Tuesday, during his first week as president of CBS News, Sean McManus took [Bob] Schieffer to lunch and made what Mr. Schieffer considered a modest request,” Jacques Steinberg reports.
“He asked me if I’d be willing to hang in there for a while longer,” Schieffer said. “I said I want to do whatever I can to help.”
CBS’s message about the future of its evening news is clear: We’re not going to rush this…
> Also: Schieffer says “that he has been having ‘a lot of fun’ as a fill-in, especially in his efforts to showcase younger correspondents,” including Lara Logan, Sharyn Alfonsi and Trish Regan…
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