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I am warming up to watch the documentary Rather, celebrating the career of the disgraced former CBS News anchor. It is to be aired this coming Wednesday on Netflix. Apparently having access to a screener for media critics, the Star Tribune’s Neal Justin found the documentary to be wanting (“when it comes to the stumbles, like walking off the set when a tennis match went long, the legendary broadcaster goes missing”). Speaking of “stumbles,” we have the matter of Rathergate. However, “stumble” doesn’t quite capture it. “Disgrace,” “disaster,” and “fraud” are more like it. Award-winning CBS News producer Mary Mapes...

Disgraced former anchorman Dan Rather is 92 years old, and CBS, the network that fired him for trying to rig the 2004 presidential election, has joined the shameless rehab campaign. During the waning weeks of the 2004 presidential election, Dan Rather was determined to ensure incumbent Republican president George W. Bush did not win reelection. And so, on 60 Minutes II, he ran a story that claimed Bush went AWOL during his time in the Texas Air National Guard. The story was true, and Rather had the documents to prove it. The story was also phony and timed to devastate...

Morley Safer was no friend of Dan Rather when the two worked together on CBS’ "60 Minutes,” according to a new unauthorized bio of Rather. In the book "Lone Star” – due out in September – author Alan Weisman writes that Safer "has not been a friend of Rather’s for years, since their days in Vietnam.” The animosity dates back to when Rather replaced Safer soon after Safer’s report about a platoon of Marines burning a Vietnamese village. "When Rather replaced me . . . he went to a group of Marines and said, ‘If I were you guys, I...

Wife of soldier: 'They can't burn us, so they shut us up'A pagan priest serving in the U.S. Army has been sentenced to seven months jail after being found guilty of willfully disobeying orders. Specialist Blake Lemoine, 23, from Moraville, La., served a year-long tour of duty in Iraq, but became an outspoken critic of the action, and claims his religious practices were a factor in the case against him. "I realized the sermons I gave were in direct conflict with what the United States military practices," Lemoine said, according to Stars & Stripes. Lemoine was court-martialed in Germany for...

<p>Announced on ABC Radio News, Dan Rather leaving CBS News. No details.</p> <p>" NEW YORK (AP) -- Dan Rather has announced he will step down as "CBS Evening News" anchor next March."</p>

Sat Nov 29 2003 11:08:48 ET // DAN RATHER MAY END ANCHOR RUN NEXT YEAR: Executives plot late '04 departure of CBS star... 'After the election, we are looking at changes,' a top network source tells DRUDGE...