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.
What a whiner. And ungrateful, too, considering all CBS did for him.
I wonder what typeface he used for this.
Zapf Dingbats
Dan Rather - Freelance Liar
"Once again?"
Good night and good luck.
At his age - and with his money - I would just slip quietly into the Ether. Just proves he's an attention wh*re.
It must hurt to be replaced with a woman, and not a real reporter at that. Sorry Dan; don't let the door hit your butt on the way out.
Dan, this is why you're out of a job.
"the role of technology in supporting a free press"
Or in catching it in lies.
At Joe's Barbershop right next to the Kinko's. He'll be the Old Grouchy Coot there on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
"I remember back when I could create a document in crayon and the sheep would eat it up. $%#(*#! Freepers."
Maybe algore could give him a job on his network (if it's still around).
The ego of a limo lib is gigantic.
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