Dan Rather Sues CBS for $70 Million
Published on September 20th, 2007
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NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – As if CBS hadn’t been rattled enough by legal flaps from shock jocks Howard Stern and Don Imus, a languishing newscast with Katie Couric as well as the controversial reality show “Kid Nation,” the network has been slapped with a $70 million lawsuit by former anchor Dan Rather.
Rather, whose decades-long career at CBS came to an inglorious end over his role in a report criticizing President Bush’s Vietnam-era National Guard service, on Wednesday sued the broadcaster and its former Viacom Inc. parent, as well as CBS CEO Leslie Moonves, Viacom and CBS chairman Sumner Redstone, and former CBS News president Andrew Heyward.
