CBS - CBS STAFFERS COMPLAIN ABOUT EARLY SHOW PRODUCER ROSS

Shelley Ross, the news show executive producer who has a way of raising hackles among talent and staff wherever she goes, is once again doing so at CBS's The Early Show, the New York Post indicated today (Friday). The newspaper's "Page Six" column quoted one veteran producer as saying, "I can't stand working here anymore. I can't stand people being humiliated this way. ... I've seen a lot of crazy people, but she takes the cake." Ross, the former producer of ABC's Primetime and Good Morning America, reportedly demanded that Rob Foreman, who produces medical stories for the morning show, read an apology to colleagues after he remarked during an editorial meeting, "Since when did scientific evidence matter on this show?" A source told the Post that Ross "was so enraged [that] he had questioned the value of her stories that she demanded he write a formal apology and then made him read it to the entire newsroom." A producer was ordered to reschedule his colonoscopy because it was sweeps month, another source told the newspaper. But a different source defended Ross, saying, "It is a general rule in TV that during sweeps, it's all hands on deck."

29/02/2008