CBS termed it a "setback" for Dan Rather, but it sounds more like the case has been "cored".
A Manhattan judge has dismissed portions of a lawsuit Dan Rather has filed against CBS and Viacom.Judicial Hearing Officer Ira Gammerman on Thursday allowed the lawsuit to go foward, but struck down the parts of the suit that name Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone, CBS President Leslie Moonves and former CBS News President Andrew Heyward.
A lawyer for the defendants, lead outside counsel James Quinn, said the judge's ruling eliminated Rather's core complaints of fraud and breach of good faith and fair dealing.
It is a report by CBS News after all, but somehow the words "forged documents" didn't find their way into the story. Instead it is said that "questions arose about the story", and that "an independent review for the network determined the story was neither fair nor accurate."
I naturally navigated to LGF to see what Charles Johnson had to say...which led to Hot Air.
Posted by dan at April 10, 2008 4:48 PM