Stewart is hired by ‘Apprentice’
From prison time to prime time - that's where Martha Stewart is headed as star of The Apprentice: Martha Stewart, an NBC spinoff of the Donald Trump reality series that...
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For Mason, a history of breaking barriers
In 1970, Linda Mason, then a writer in the CBS News division, applied for a producing job. But instead of a promotion, she got advice. "Women can't be producers," her...
Restoring public’s trust in CBS News
Not long after he took over as president of CBS News in the late 1990s, Andrew Heyward appeared on the cover of American Journalism Review. The headline was: "Can Andrew...
CBS fires 4 executives, producers over Bush-National Guard report
CBS News fired four executives and senior producers yesterday, after an independent panel concluded that a "myopic zeal" to beat the competition on a story about President Bush's National Guard...
A moving show of respect on TV
The riderless horse with the boots of the dead president backward in the stirrups. The evocative clop-clop of the horses' hooves along the avenue as the caisson carried his flag-draped...
Fond farewell to the family of ‘Friends’
Rachel and Ross got together, and Monica and Chandler got two babies not one. Like the 10-year hit series itself, there was nothing daring, magical or drop-jaw fabulous about the...
When ‘Friends’ became family
NBC's Friends was neither a great nor groundbreaking television series, but - almost in spite of itself - the 10-year-old sitcom about six handsome and self-absorbed, 20-something pals has had...
Era of smiles fading away
In: The Donald. Out: Joey, Monica, Phoebe, Ross, Rachel and Chandler. In: Being mean. Out: Making nice. In: Relationships of convenience. Out: Friends. There is an unmistakable symmetry in NBC's...
Academy sticks to a tame script
The motion picture academy's insistence on decorum in the wake of Janet Jackson's Super Bowl debacle gave last night's telecast of 76th Annual Academy Awards all the unpredictability of a...
TV coverage of 9/11 moving, thoughtful
Television yesterday took America on a marvelous journey of remembrance, sorrow, symbolism and resolution. The road of coverage was a long and bumpy one that at times during the afternoon...