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CBS News stories: 17 news summaries

 Beaver Pees on CBS Reporter 

Clip from the Early Show is, obviously, CBS News' most popular

Nov 13, 09 8:36 AM CST
(Newser) - When a beaver on an Early Show animal segment started marking its territory—and correspondent Debbye Turner Bell got sprayed in the face— CBS News must have known it had a viral video on its hands. So the network went ahead and posted the clip itself, complete with slow-motion replay... More »

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entertainment • CBS • online videos • viral video • CBS News • The Early Show

Court Dismisses Dan Rather's Suit vs. CBS

Appellate panel tosses $70M breach of
contract claim

Sep 29, 09 6:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dan Rather's $70 million lawsuit against CBS is all but over after an appellate court in New York dismissed his case today. Rather's lawyer vowed to appeal the ruling in the breach of contract suit. Rather initiated the suit following his ouster as Evening News anchor in the wake of... More »

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Dan Rather • lawsuit • civil lawsuits • CBS News • television news • CBS Evening News • breach of contract

(Newser) - Diane Sawyer finally has the job she’s been waiting for, Rebecca Dana writes for the Daily Beast: “anchor of World News, the once towering, now considerably diminished evening broadcast.” But her renewed rivalry with Katie Couric and her struggle to hold on to Charles Gibson’s ratings... More »

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Katie Couric • Good Morning America • CBS News • ABC News • Diane Sawyer • news anchor • CBS Evening News • Charles Gibson • David Westin • World News

Obituary

 60 Minutes Creator 
 Don Hewitt, 86, Dies 

TV legend directed Cronkite, Murrow in nearly 60 years at CBS

Aug 19, 09 11:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Don Hewitt, one of the pioneers of TV news, died today at 86 of pancreatic cancer, CBS reports. Hewitt all but invented television news over the course of his more than 60-year career, directing legends Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite. He was behind the 1968 launch of 60 Minutes,... More »

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obituary • pancreatic cancer • 60 Minutes • CBS News • Walter Cronkite • television news • Don Hewitt • Edward R. Murrow

Rather Digs In for Legal War With CBS

Tarnished newsman calls lawsuit a stand
vs. corporate bullies

Aug 16, 09 4:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dan Rather is still out to prove that CBS sacrificed him to appease its corporate backers and conservative allies, the Los Angeles Times reports. In a $70-million lawsuit filed 2 years ago, Rather claimed that CBS, caving to Viacom and the Bush administration, forced him to retract a controversial story... More »

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CBS • Dan Rather • lawsuit • CBS News • George W. Bush • Texas Air National Guard

TRIBUTE

Cronkite Shook Our Faith
in American Institutions

The most trusted man in America often undermined the system

Jul 18, 09 5:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Armed with a “splendid poker face and a voice that incarnated authority,” Walter Cronkite symbolized the very credibility of American institutions that his reporting came to undermine, Todd Gitlin writes in the New Republic. Whether it was the Pentagon or the president of the United States, Cronkite broke... More »

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reporter • journalist • CBS News • Walter Cronkite

 Cronkite 'Gravely Ill' 


Jun 18, 09 4:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Walter Cronkite, the legendary CBS News anchor and reporter, is “gravely ill,” sources tell Mediabistro columnist Gail Shister. The network began updating its obituary package for the 92-year-old last week, one added. Newsday’s Verne Gay writes that he, too, has heard the rumors: “Walter could be... More »

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illness • CBS News • Walter Cronkite • news anchor

TV Networks Scale Back Iraq War Coverage

Afghanistan becomes focus as US deaths fall, budgets drop

Dec 29, 08 9:26 AM CST
(Newser) - Violence is down drastically in Iraq, but so is coverage of the conflict by ABC, NBC, and CBS, who no longer have full-time correspondents in the country, the New York Times reports. Instead, the networks are shifting their focus to Pakistan and Afghanistan. “Afghanistan was the forgotten war,”... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • correspondent • NBC News • CBS News • ABC News • television news

 Talking Heads 
 Vow Restraint 
 ... Sort of 

Networks vow some restraint

Nov 4, 08 8:10 AM CST
(Newser) - Television news executives have vowed they won't jump the gun and project a president-elect until one man has 270 electoral votes. And they won't count electoral votes until polls are closed, reports the Los Angeles Times. But if key states in the East and Midwest back Obama, viewers will likely... More »

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California • New Mexico • Rick Davis • Nevada • Colorado • CBS News • exit polls • David Axelrod • Election 2008 • television news • network news • projections

OPINION

Cable News Was Biggest Convention Winner

Broadcasters cede historic role as political pundits

Sep 1, 08 9:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Democratic Convention made it official, writes Scott Collilns in the Los Angeles Times: The broadcast networks have passed the political torch to the cable networks. CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC not only delivered “wall to wall coverage” compared to the broadcast nets' paltry hour of nightly programming. Their... More »

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NBC • cable TV • MSNBC • Democratic National Convention • Fox News • CNN • PBS • broadcasting • CBS News • ABC News • Republican National Convention

Couric's CBS Numbers Hit New Low

Evening News watched by average 5.39M last week, good for third

Apr 22, 08 5:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - The CBS Evening News hit a new low for viewership, with an average of 5.39 million last week. The previous record was set last September when anchor Katie Couric visited Iraq, the New York Times reports. The latest showing is another piece of bad news for Couric after reports... More »

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Katie Couric • CBS News

Trouble at
CBS Runs
Wide and Deep

Evening News
turmoil is last thing
Moonves needs

Apr 14, 08 11:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - With trouble plaguing most divisions of CBS, last week's flap over Katie Couric's contract was just one of the countless items on Les Moonves' to-do list, the New York Times reports. Ad sales are down industry-wide, Fox is on the tail of the prime-time division and gaining fast, and the... More »

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Katie Couric • CBS • Leslie Moonves • earnings reports • Fox • CBS News

CBS in Talks
to Outsource
News to CNN

Deal would mark watershed for mother
of network news

Apr 8, 08 9:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - CBS, the network of Ed Murrow and Walter Cronkite that is widely credited with inventing television news, is considering outsourcing some of its news gathering activities to CNN, according to the New York Times. No deal is imminent but talks are reportedly taking place at the highest level at... More »

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Time Warner • NBC • Katie Couric • CBS • Dan Rather • CNN • Good Morning America • CBS News • ABC News • Today show • television news • CBS Evening News • The Early Show • TNS Media Intelligence

Reporters Wounded in Iraq Win Peabody Awards

Woodruff and Dozier honored for their war reporting

Apr 2, 08 4:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Two journalists seriously injured in Iraq won Peabody Awards today for their stories on wounded veterans, the AP reports. Bob Woodruff of ABC and Kimberly Dozier of CBS each won for their profiles of soldiers returning home from Iraq. Woodruff suffered a brain injury in an IED attack in 2006,... More »

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Iraq • television • 30 Rock • Bob Woodruff • The Colbert Report • CBS News • ABC News • Iraq war • Kimberly Dozier • Peabody Awards

Clinton 'Misspoke' About Dodging Bosnia Sniper

Dem backtracks as Obama camp pounces

Mar 25, 08 4:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton had to dodge sniper fire when she landed at the start of a goodwill tour of Bosnia in 1996—at least that’s what the senator said last week. But after an archive CBS news video showed the then-first lady smiling and waving without a single bullet whizzing... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Bosnia • CBS News • first lady • sniper • Howard Wolfson • Tulza

SNL May Have Triggered Tougher Scrutiny of Obama

Sketches lampooned starry-eyed coverage

Mar 5, 08 5:12 AM CST
(Newser) - A Saturday Night Live sketch 10 days ago lampooning the perceived media bias favoring Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton may have changed the way Obama has been covered in the last several days, AP reports. The SNL debate skit showing starry-eyed journalists fawning over Obama echoed complaints by Clinton's supporters.... More »

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Saturday Night Live • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • New York Times • Washington Post • Good Morning America • CBS News • media bias • Cleveland debate

News Writers Vote to Strike CBS

Union aims to kick start negotiations

Nov 20, 07 4:19 AM CST
(Newser) - Some 500 CBS News writers and other staffers are threatening to join Hollywood writers on the picket line. News writers, graphic artists, researchers and other network  employees who are members of the Writers Guild of America have voted by a huge majority to authorize a strike against the company, the... More »

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strike • Writers Guild of America • CBS News • CBS television stations

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