The Sellout Of Cbs News
April, 1987
The Sellout of CBS NewsOnly a few details of the internal machinations of CBS News were familiar to me when I went to work there in 1985--the year that CBS and CBS News themselves became the news. I had worked as a reporter and an editor--or, as people in television say, "in print"--and I had friends from print who had sojourned in TV, and some of them had run screaming into the night. So I made a solemn vow before I went into TV to keep a close watch on my mental balance, and I promis...