Who Killed CBS: The Undoing of America's Number One News Network
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (971 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0394560345 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 361 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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From boardroom to control room, Peter Boyer reveals the events that dethroned a giant. A dramatic, savvy, and highly entertaining look at the fallen network giant that left the critics raving and CBS raving mad. "(An) unputdownable real-life business yarn."--Booklist. HC: Random House.
Photos not seen by PW. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. Boyer charts this imbalance with a keen eye for the arrogance, pettiness and greed that motivated many of the major players in the ensuing scramble. But, rather than settling on a single culprit, he offers a host of unsavory suspects around which a convincing case could be built: the vain, insecure Dan Ratherwhom no reader will ever be able to take seriously again; Richard Leibner, agent to Rather and dozens of other CBS News stars; Van Gordon Sauter and Ed Joyce, two successive CBS News presidents, the former a two-time veteran of the position; Lawrence Tisch and more. Readers also will occasionally detect the telltale buzz of an ax-grinder at workBoyer's characterizations are obviously slanted, although no clear bias emerges. His is a tale of many s
The trouble with network news Brian D. Rubendall "Who Killed CBS" is a dated but still relevant expose of how the network which was once unsurpassed for the quality of its news division sunk during the 1970s and 1980s to the depths of mediocrity. How the modern evening news came to resemble tabloid shows like "A Current Affair" and "Hard Copy" is plainly evident in Boyer's descriptions of how CBS executives came increasingly to see television news