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Connie Chung on fighting for herself – and against Dan Rather – on CBS

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Connie Chung on fighting for herself – and against Dan Rather – on CBS

Why, why, why?” screamed and cried figure skater Nancy Kerrigan after a burly thug hit her in the knee with a metal pole. “Why, why?” I exclaimed when CBS News executives told me I had to report on the sordid soap opera involving Olympic arch-rivals Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan. I was co-anchor of the […]

“Are you saying no to Elon Musk?”: Scenes from the slash-and-burn takeover of Twitter

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“Are you saying no to Elon Musk?”: Scenes from the slash-and-burn takeover of Twitter

On October 27, 2022 at around 9:00 a.m. Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s CEO, called his executive team into one of the large glass-doored conference rooms that lined the seventh-floor offices of Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters. After months of tension and worry, there was a grim clarity in the air – Musk was finally closing the deal. […]