Fighting Mad
Filed under: Legal Matters > Media Minute
Dan Rather is suing CBS and Viacom….for $70 million!!!!
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday afternoon in State Supreme Court in Manhattan alleges fraud against CBS. Rather also claims that the network also didn't live up to their certain contractual agreements they had made with him and that he was made to be a "scapegoat" in his acrimonious departure from the nightly news.
Posted: September 19, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Still waiting for someone to defend his journalistic standards or integrity when it comes to the Killion memo.
(Cue crickets.)
But other than that whole politically motivated dishonesty bit, what a great journalist!
Redstone is too old to be running a "cool" media company! He sues Youtube! He sues his family! fires Tom Cruise (responsible for Paramounts only current movie franchise)! fires Tom Freston (the coolest, most innovative and most loved entertainment executive in the business) and puts in Philip Dauman a boring lawyer (no wonder youtube got sued)! Also stephen Spielberg and David Geffen are leaving the company as well. EVERYONE is running for the hills!
Sue him Rather!
TEAM DAN!!!!!!!!!
I never liked him. Too stiff and afraid looking. Seemed shallow to me. So, what now, sour grapes??
So what if Perez copies a few stories. What if a person only visits Perez's site?
What makes him think he is worth so much???? What an EGO! Get lost Rather. Good Riddance.
I grew up with Dan Rather, and he was the best evening news anchor, he went all over the world for CBS and they hung him out to dry….good for him, he still had a very distinguished and long career and was number 1 in the ratings for many years!
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Redstone is easily over a hundred years old and as crazy as a shit-house rat. Can someone please let Sumner know that he’s older than dirt and to direct him to the nearest nursing home already, my God. Investors are not amused with his arrogant, wacky and outrageous behavior. First he publicly scolds Tom Cruise for being crazy in love, then claims he fired him, then he actually does fire Tom Freston, probably the best thing that has happened to Viacom, then he gets in public fights with his family for control of the media empire, he fires a few more people just for the hell of it and admits he makes decisions based on some whim of his drugged up wife. Would someone at Viacom please grab the wheel already, he’s driving the company over a cliff and all you people are doing is watching the train wreck while stocks continue to downward-spiral.
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Redstone is easily over a hundred years old and as crazy as a shit-house rat. Can someone please let Sumner know that he’s older than dirt and to direct him to the nearest nursing home already, my God. Investors are not amused with his arrogant, wacky and outrageous behavior. First he publicly scolds Tom Cruise for being crazy in love, then claims he fired him, then he actually does fire Tom Freston, probably the best thing that has happened to Viacom, then he gets in public fights with his family for control of the media empire, he fires a few more people just for the hell of it and admits he makes decisions based on some whim of his drugged up wife. Would someone at Viacom please grab the wheel already, he’s driving the company over a cliff and all you people are doing is watching the train wreck while stocks continue to downward-spiral.
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Redstone is easily over a hundred years old and as crazy as a shit-house rat. Can someone please let Sumner know that he’s older than dirt and to direct him to the nearest nursing home already, my God. Investors are not amused with his arrogant, wacky and outrageous behavior. First he publicly scolds Tom Cruise for being crazy in love, then claims he fired him, then he actually does fire Tom Freston, probably the best thing that has happened to Viacom, then he gets in public fights with his family for control of the media empire, he fires a few more people just for the hell of it and admits he makes decisions based on some whim of his drugged up wife. Would someone at Viacom please grab the wheel already, he’s driving the company over a cliff and all you people are doing is watching the train wreck while stocks continue to downward-spiral.
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What a loser.
WHY SO MUCH MONEY? MONEY HUNGRY OLD MAN! I HONESTLY HOPE HE DOES NOT WIN 70 MILL.. THATS RIDICULOUS PEOPLE…GET OVER WHATEVER U HAVE UP UR ASS…
Hey Danny Boy,
When you get that 70Mil just make sure you gimme a call baby!! MUAH!!! LOVE YA!!!
Good show, Dan. Not only are you going to lose big time…but all you will accomplish is to remind everyone how unethical you and your entire team was and always has been. Can you imagine if the press was allowed to just make up documents to bolster their news stories as THEY PERCEIVE THEM? I don't care which side of the aisle you're on…it's wrong…and it's dangerous.
Dan should sue that worthless network for everything he can get.
uhm yeah. YOUR all the problem w/ kids these days and the reason most of us have a bad name.
use your fucking heads and get the ear buds out of your ears w/ all your emocore.
YOUR the reason news stations like cbs and cnn get away w/ all the shit they FEED YOU.
I hope you all implode.
STICK IT TO THE MAN GIRLFRIEND….FUCK THEM UP DOWN AND SIDEWAYS…………..WHOOA BABY…I'M ABOUT TO BRING IT HOME MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!!!!!!!
My mom always was a big fan of his - good for him for sticking up for himself!!
GOOD FOR MR RATHER!
He got the shaft because he did not tow the line for rabid war mongers.
I LOVE HIM and hope he gets paid. the news just isnt the same without him
No 33 you are an ignorant douche bag. Courage and intergrity to describe this old communist fuck. Go get educated bitch !!!
How in the hell can he be suing them for making him a scapegoat on the departure from the nightly news….HE WAS THE MANAGING EDITOR!!!!! Fucktard
The memo was forged. Case closed.
And Rather was pushing the story to fit his gotcha let's-get-Bush-at all costs journalism. You can't base a story on forged documents. Rather is a deluded narcissist who will never own up to the truth.
God I love Dan Rather!
GO GET THEM DAN!!!!!
SUE CBS FOR EVERYTHING THEY HAVE!!
GO GET THEM DAN!!!!!
SUE CBS FOR EVERYTHING THEY HAVE!!
GO GET THEM DAN!!!!!
SUE CBS FOR EVERYTHING THEY HAVE!!
GO GET THEM DAN!!!!!
SUE CBS FOR EVERYTHING THEY HAVE!!
Dan Rather is just trying to blame someone else for his deceitful, immoral, and unethical behavior. Dan Rather tried to use his platform as a "journalist" to destroy an American President. And regardless of your personal politics, whether you love or hate President Bush, you should be both angered and frightened by that. It's easy to brush it under the rug, or even celebrate his behavior when his victim is the candidate you dislike. But just remember that the next time, it will be YOUR candidate who is the victim of such viscious, purposeful lies. This is NOT a partisan issue. It's an AMERICAN issue and you should demand 100% truth from the media and ZERO PURPOSEFUL truth tampering. It's one thing for a network news anchor to express his personal opinion. I support freedom of speech. But when news anchors work to PURPOSELY doctor the facts in order to further their agenda, then you should have a HUGE problem with that, regardless of which partisan line they benefit. Some of you really need to learn to see the forest for the trees and stop offering knee-jerk, self-serving responses to the things that are going on in our country. Elementary school is over. Research the facts for yourselves from UNBIASED sources and learn what it really means to be a "concerned citizen", or a "patriot". Our country's freedom and well-being depends upon all of you growing up and learning how to be responsible, educated, informed citizens.
Re: frankdavis – a "maroon?" ummm, okay.. perhaps you should stick to commenting on stories you're more familiar with… say, britney, or paris crotch shots? sure, there were facts that were "incorrect," but they in themselves, DID NOT breakdown the core intent of the story which was IN FACT true.
Re: spade_a_spade – Psst…..the story was true. Dubya didn't complete his tour of duty.
Re: spade_a_spade – On another note. If you think Dubya is doing this for our freedom. May I first say. BWHAHAHAHA!!!!!! If you really think he is…..please point out what part of the Constitution is left after Dubya & Co!
Re: COCO – I suggest you read up on the October Surprise of 1980 to find out exactly how Saddam got those chemicals. Bush41 treasonously went behind sitting Pres Carter and gave Iran weapons for hostages to steal the election for Reagan. Reagan/Bush then gave weapons to Iraq to even out the war, since Saddam was a CIA asset. The weapons sales continued with Iran. Remember the Iran/Contra hearings? Which were bought with drug money funneled into Los Angeles. Read Gary Webb's articles on the CIA and you'll realize the true crack epidemic was to pay for Reagan/Bush's illegal wars, etc. Wake up! Bush41 even started cutting the military so it would be easier for companies like Halliburton to profit from war without the Iran/Contra footprints. Even the first Iraq war a ruse for war-profiteers.
way to go! sue the hell out of those assholes. they're right in bed with the rest of the "news" fed to us by the bullshit bush administration. I hope he wins big!
Whatta dickhead!
I THINK DAN DESERVES EVERY DIME. HE WAS WELL RESPECTED BEFORE THIS HAPPENED
He knew exactly what he was doing. Suck it up Dan, you fu*ked up, now live with your mistake.
He knew exactly what he was doing. Suck it up Dan, you f'd up, now live with your mistake.
Re: TV Rag MAN – Everything Dan said was TRUE! Bush did not serve his nation in the miltary and all the paper work was correct! Bush's people want to discredit real journalist! WAKE THE FUCK UP… BUSH is a fuck up who never served this nation becuase PAPA BUSH was the head of CIA and of course his son would never really have to go to the military… Whats wrong with you people have you not noticed all the so called "news" on T.V its all bullshit, Britney this and that while our nation falls into the hands of Fascim. WAKE UP…