First, Dan Rather was encouraged to move up his retirement plans and leave CBS Evening News. But he still had his weekday 60 Minute Slot.
But now CBS has cancelled that slot. So the question becomes, what should you replace it with, and what kind of program would work in primetime?
Guess who has offered to help CBS with these questions?
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.