You’ve seen the NY Observer piece on CBS’s meltdown.

Blog powerhouse Power Line first highlighted the Thornburgh report’s silence on the role top execs played in the memo fiasco here. Maybe Josh Howard and his lawyer were reading! (While we’re talking Power Line, see also Paul Mirengoff’s piece in the Weekly Standard: Inferring the Obvious.)

La Shawn Barber supports Josh Howard and, as always, has the mother of all round-ups.

The indispensable Ratherbiased.com points to the N.Y. Times piece on the internal turmoil, and notes this graf:

All three journalists have hired lawyers, each of whom has had at least preliminary conversations with those representing CBS. And at least two of the journalists, Mr. Howard and Ms. Murphy, both of whom joined the network more than 15 years ago, have been offered cash settlements that are equivalent to less than a year’s salary, said one of the CBS officials. Each has thus far refused those offers.

Sez Ratherbiased: “Are Howard et al. just upping the settlement ante?”

Sure looks like it.

Mike at Rathergate sez: Ah, “I will pay money for a ticket to the discovery hearings.”

Great idea. Let’s make ‘em pay-per-view.