Posted on 06/20/2006 11:18:49 AM PDT by abb
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 12:52 PM Subject: Statement from Dan Rather, June 20, 2006
I appreciate the words and gestures contained in today's press release by CBS.
I leave CBS News with tremendous memories. But I leave now most of all with the desire to once again do regular, meaningful reporting. My departure before the term of my contract represents CBS's final acknowledgement, after a protracted struggle, that they had not lived up to their obligation to allow me to do substantive work there. As for their offers of a future with only an office but no assignments, it just isn't in me to sit around doing nothing. So I will do the work I love elsewhere, and I look forward to sharing details about that soon.
As I go about deciding where and with whom that can best be done, I want to say how grateful I am to have worked with so many outstanding CBS men and women over the years. From producers, to correspondents, to technical crews, it has been my great fortune to have had some of the best pros in journalism at my back and at my side. They are the true heart of CBS News, and they will always have my respect.
Too much is made of anchors and their personalities, their ups and downs. The larger issues—the role of a free press and of honest, real news in a democracy, the role of technology in supporting a free press, the "corporatization" of news and its effects on news content—all deserve more attention, more discussion and more passionate debate.
I'll see you soon.
Now THAT is a "Kool Aid" stand!
I saw a Microsoft Word memo from the 1950's that says that Dan was taken away by flying saucers.
Is he still alive???
"My departure before the term of my contract represents CBS's final acknowledgement, after a protracted struggle, that they had not lived up to their obligation to allow me to do substantive work there."
It is like this Dan they had an obligation to the public and the stock holders not to give you "meaningful and substantive" work at CBS. Not that that is the real reason. If that were the real reason they would not have hired Miss Katie(Buckhead and the rest of us are just waitaing for her). I guess that they just didn't have any credibility with you there (not that they really deserve any).
See ya later, Danny boy. Or maybe I won't.
Lifted it from Paleo Conservative's home page.
Hey dan, I got your gesture, right here.
My hope is that he doesn't return to the Austin area where there's always the possibility of running into him. I see him around Lakeway once in a while, and have to bite my tongue so I won't scream something bad at him--LOL!
Let's see....CNN, MSNBC...I'm sure he'll soon be on the air some place else. Not lookin' forward to that...
That weekend slot over at MSNBC is open.
"So I will do the work I love elsewhere, and I look forward to sharing details about that soon."
Working for Fidel, perhaps?
>>I'll see you soon.<<
No you won't, Dan. Hopefully, we'll be seeing you fart into the sofa cushions at the Piney Crest Home for Disgraced Dinosaurs real soon.
Was this press release faxed from a Kinko's in Abeline?
I suggest the Castro "news" network:
No kidding! Guess he wants to be absolutely 100% sure that everyone knows how classless he is.
CBS bent over backwards to give his fake-but-accurate memo story every benefit of the doubt, and this is how he repays them?
What a schmuck!
Blather and his fellow whores and pimps at CBS have never done any honest reporting.
We are enjoying Blather/Mapes so called retirement, and we will enjoy it when CBS abandons its Pseudo Evening News and the even worse 60 minutes.
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