Mr. Heyward goes to Washington.(Flash!)(Andrew Heyward met with White House communications director Dan Bartlett)(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, January, 2005

Let the fence-mending begin. According to a B&C source in Washington, CBS News President Andrew Heyward, along with Washington bureau chief Janet Leissner, recently met with White House communications director Dan Bartlett, in part to repair chilly relations with the Bush Administration. CBS News' popularity at the White House--never high to begin with--plunged even further in the wake of Dan Rather's discredited 60 Minutes story on George Bush's National Guard service.

An incentive for making nice is the impending report from the two-member panel investigating Rather's use of now-infamous documents for the 60 Minutes piece. Heyward was "working overtime to convince Bartlett that neither CBS News nor Rather had a vendetta against the White House,"...

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