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New Bio: Cronkite Was on the Take

Mary Papenfuss — Wed, 23 May 2012 01:00:53 CDT

It seems our apparently squeaky-clean fatherly news king Walter Cronkite was not above accepting major freebies from none other than Pan Am. That's the dirt from a new biography on Cronkite, that claims he cut a deal in the 1970s with the airline to fly him, his family and select...

GOP Debate's Clear Loser: CBS

Polly Davis Doig — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 07:13:00 CST

If Rick Perry was the big loser in Wednesday's debate , then last night's CBS/ National Journal debate also has an official whipping boy: CBS. Michele Bachmann is ripping the network for the lack of time she got, and she's got ammunition in the form of an errant email the network's...

Andy Rooney Dead at 92

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 06:43:23 CDT

Andy Rooney, the curmudgeonly commentator who spent more than 30 years wryly talking about the oddities of life for 60 Minutes , died last night at age 92. Just a month ago, Rooney delivered his last regular essay on the CBS newsmagazine. The network said he died in New York from...

Andy Rooney Ending Role on 60 Minutes

John Johnson — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:32:28 CDT

Curmudgeon wanted: Andy Rooney is calling it quits from 60 Minutes , says CBS . The 92-year-old will announce the move at the end of this Sunday's essay, which the network notes will be No. 1,097 since 1978. Though a network fixture, Rooney has run into repeated criticism that he's out...

Lara Logan: I Was Stripped, Nearly Scalped

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 02 May 2011 06:13:48 CDT

CBS correspondent Lara Logan was convinced she was dying as she was sexually molested by a crazed mob of Egyptian men, but was saved at the last minute by a woman wearing a burka. All she could see was "just her eyes," she said on 60 Minutes last night. "She...

Is This Man Replacing Katie Couric?

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:14:15 CDT

Drumroll please: Katie Couric's replacement at CBS Evening News will be ... Scott Pelley. At least, if TMZ is to be believed (and remember, the gossip site did scoop the world on Michael Jackson's death and the Obamas' dog ). CBS network sources say Pelley, a veteran journalist and 60 Minutes...

Latest Casualty of World's Upheaval: Media Budgets

Kevin Spak — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:04:12 CDT

There’s been a lot of news around the world in 2011—too much, in fact, for some news organizations to handle. Japan, Libya, and Egypt have stretched already tight cable and broadcast news budgets to the breaking point, The Wrap reports. “We've already had a year's worth of breaking news...

Lara Logan Out of Hospital

John Johnson — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:56:50 CST

One bit of good news in the Lara Logan story: She's out of the hospital and resting at home in Washington, DC, with her husband and two children, reports ABC News . The 39-year-old CBS journalist was earlier said to be in "remarkably good spirits" despite her sexual assault and beating...

Assange: WikiLeaks Shares Founding Fathers' Values

Matt Cantor — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:11:24 CST

Julian Assange says he doesn’t dislike the US; instead, WikiLeaks is motivated by the same values as the Founding Fathers. “Our founding values are those of the US revolution,” he told 60 Minutes last night. “They are those of people like Jefferson and Madison.” Indeed, the website doesn’t “go after...