Posted on 06/20/2006 12:13:38 PM PDT by StJacques
NEW YORK - Dan Rather, the hard-charging anchorman who dominated CBS News for more than two decades but whose final months were clouded by a discredited story on the president’s military service, is leaving CBS after 44 years, the network announced Tuesday.
The 74-year-old Rather has complained of being virtually forgotten at CBS Corp. since his exit as anchor last year, six months after the story on President Bush’s military service aired. He has said he is considering an offer to do a weekly show at the HDNet high-definition network.
“There will always be a part of Dan Rather at CBS News,” said Sean McManus, CBS News president. “He is truly a ‘reporter’s reporter,’ and he has helped to train several generations of broadcast journalists. His legacy cannot be replicated.”
Rather said that his departure before the end of his contract represented CBS’ acknowledgment, “after a protracted struggle, that they had not lived up to their obligation to allow me to do substantive work there.”. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
He is truly a liberal ‘reporter’s reporter.
“There will always be a part of Dan Rather at CBS News,” - I guess the toilets are backed up.
Cue "Thanks for the memories..."
Nah, he did a top decker before he left.
The janitor is going to be pissed!
"There will always be a part of Dan Rather at CBS News,”
I was thinking he lost his hair piece.
Humiliated on national TV.
Professionally disgraced.
Exposed as incompetent and partisan.
Marginalized by the company for which he worked for decades.
Ignominiously pushed out by people he had always thought were his friends and allies.
Remember, this is a guy who arrogantly refused to perform a broadcast and forced CBS to put on dead air, all in response to a perceived slight.
He's got to be eating hsi heart out over this situation.
Someone needs to light a match.
Puff piece giveaway.
Courage, Dan. Courage.
CBS with Dan Rather was nothing more than the cBS version of Hannity & Colmes without the Hannity.
http://jednet207.tripod.com/PoliticalLinks.html
But will he wear a cocktail dress and sing on a piano?
Everytime somebody fakes an expense account, makes up a phony story, or otherwise concocts a fradulent document, his memory will be honored...
ADIOS!!
Doogle
Wow, even the AP writes that the story was "discredited"?
Hell. Freeze. Over.
Dan Rather should work for the LDNet low-definition network. It will be harder to identify which typeface he is using.
Yeah, you're right. When the collective vast right-wing conspiracy started years ago with "Rather Biased" and so on, I doubt we ever really thought we'd see this day and see it so splendidly.
Well done, friends, well done!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.