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Dan Rather Sues CBS Executives

HeadlineAug 04, 2009

In other media news, former TV news anchor Dan Rather sued CBS chief executive Leslie Moonves and former CBS News President Andrew Heyward on Monday in a bid to have them reinstated as defendants in his $70 million lawsuit against the network. Rather accused the two men of fraud relating to his claim that CBS made him a scapegoat in a scandal over a 2004 report about President George W. Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard.

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