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Rumors Come True! Shelley Ross Out, Rick Kaplan in at CBS Early Show

Rumors Come True! Shelley Ross Out, Rick Kaplan in at CBS Early Show
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The Media Mob has learned that CBS News is on the verge of announcing the end of Shelley Ross’ brief, tumultuous reign as executive producer of the Early Show.  read more »

At Jack McWethy Memorial, the Ghost of a Famous Grin

Jack McWethy interviewing Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon crash site on Sept. 12, 2001
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Jack McWethy interviewing Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon crash site on Sept. 12, 2001

WASHINGTON, D.C.—"Sometimes the end comes like a thief in the night," said Sam Donaldson.

Mr. Donaldson was standing on a stage at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., yesterday morning, quoting the Bible. Like the hundred or so mourners who had gathered in the large auditorium, Mr. Donaldson was struggling to make sense of the sudden recent death of his friend and former colleague, John "Jack" McWethy.

A week earlier, on Feb. 6, Mr. McWethy had been skiing with his wife Laurie at a resort in Keystone, Colo. He was cruising down an intermediate slope, when suddenly the accomplished, veteran skier lost control and slid chest first into a tree. The fluke crash proved to be fatal. He was 61.  read more »

Dan Rather: How I Bagged Saddam Chat

"As I speak to you, we are cruising across where the Iraqi desert meets the Jordanian desert, though  read more »

Lou Dobbs: Space Cowboy or Space Cadet?

Lou Dobbs stood atop an overgrown foothill on his 300-plusacre,Sussex County, N.J., estate and looke  read more »