Following their decision to oust Dan Rather as anchor of The CBS Evening News, CBS News executives, including then CBS President Les Moonves and CBS News President Andrew Heyward considered replacing him with Keith Olbermann, who currently hosts Countdown on MSNBC, according to an article that will appear in the next issue of The New Yorker. According to summaries of the article that were published Sunday, Heyward initially objected to Olbermann's approach, which included a closing three-minute commentary on the day's events. According to the New Yorker article by Peter J. Boyer, which cited no sources for the meeting, Olbermann later met with Heyward's successor, Sean McManus. No details about that meeting were included in the magazine article.
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