CBS - RATHER SAYS ANCHORS DEPEND ON STRONG NETWORK EXECS

Former CBS anchor Dan Rather has said that the strength of a network's news operation comes from the top. In an interview with CNET News.com, Rather said, "Good journalism, great journalism, starts with owners who have guts." He pointed out, however, that "it's increasingly hard for people in news to have any access to the top leaders of the giant corporations. But I think you have to work hard at it." He suggested that he himself had not worked hard enough to explain to network heads "what is is we do [and] why we do it" and, when it comes to investigative reports, "why it's in the company's interest, never mind the country's interest, to do it."

14/03/2007