It appears to me that Rather cannot whether this storm. Affiliates and advertisers are soon going to be getting in on the act, if they are not already. Dan Rather going out as a discredited Dimwit hack whose lack of judgment single-handedly gave omniscient power to the Republicans for a generation or more is a fairy tale ending to this episode, to be sure. But we can dream, can't we?
"It looks like CBS and the Boston Globe are all alone "
No, you need to add PBS and Time Magazine.