Behind the Smiles at CBS

摘要

The CBS brass all had on their cheery game faces at the annual holiday party the network throws for the press in its New York headquarters. But despite all the bonhomie in Studio 19 Dec. 9, everybody knew there was an unsmiling 800-pound gorilla in the room: the report expected to be issued any day now by the investigation into the discredited 60 Minutes report by Dan Rather on George Bush's National Guard service. Whatever the investigative panel's ultimate findings, it's clear that CBS News is already in the midst of an upheaval; a lot of jockeying went on at the party, and it wasn't just for refills at the bar.