Jericka Duncan, live on the “CBS Evening News,” looked unflinchingly into the camera as she explained how the story she had been covering — the turmoil over sexual misconduct at her own network — now involved the departure of yet another icon, “60 Minutes” chief Jeff Fager. The immediate reason: Text messages he had sent to a reporter.
"I am that reporter," Duncan said. The broadcast reproduced the chilling words as Fager warned Duncan that she'd better not report on the highly credible allegations against him without substantiating them herself.
Earlier in the day, the Hollywood Reporter published a guest column by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason — the hitmaking creator of “Designing Women” — who told the enraging story of how her work was stomped out by Les Moonves, the recently deposed head honcho of CBS.