Rather's sworn discovery would have been devastating to him. It would have forced him to look into a clear mirror.
There are sooooo many things that would have been raised to show Rather was not stable enough to be trusted to do a story. I saw some first hand, and they would have been fatal to his case, and his image.
Yes. Rather tried to bluff The Suits into a settlement and it didn’t work.
Likely too, the courts were not very interested in exposing what they know took place.
Just finished this one the other day.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Ma—NDKJkk0C&dq=edward+r+murrow+sperber&source=gbs_navlinks_s
Murrow, his life and times
By Ann M. Sperber
Very interesting - lots of history on the formation of CBS News.