Posted on 06/20/2006 6:17:30 PM PDT by conservative in nyc
Dan Rather, one of the giants of American broadcast journalism, is to leave the channel he has worked at for 44 years, for a position at a little watched cable channel. CBS announced yesterday that Rather, 74, would be leaving the channel where he hosted the evening news for 24 years until he stood down last year.
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Rather has said in recent days that he was unhappy with the new role being offered him at the channel, where he has covered most of the big stories of the past 40 years, from the Kennedy assassination to the invasion of Iraq.
In September 2004, however, he introduced and subsequently defended a report questioning George Bush's National Guard service during the Vietnam war. The report relied on documents that were revealed as fakes, and in its aftermath Rather stepped down as evening news anchor, taking a reporting role on the 60 Minutes programme. However he has been used only eight times in a year, and complained last week in an interview with the New York Times that he had been given nothing to do for six weeks. Relations with the network appear to have deteriorated when he was offered a contract that included an office and an assistant but no affiliation with any programme.
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Rather, who is in negotiations with the HDNet channel to front a weekly interview programme, has spent much of his recent downtime watching the film Good Night and Good Luck, George Clooney's tribute to Ed Murrow and the groundbreaking television reporting of the 50s. He is said to have seen it five times.
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"What's the Frequency, Kenneth?"
Yup...same guy.
Tap dancing. High leaping. Heavy landings.
Stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp...
He is 74 and it appears he can only exist in front of a camera, any camera.
The lesson for everyone is, for God's sake develop some sort of inner life, please don't die a lonely, desperate old man saying please notice me, please notice me or I will disappear.
Small man in a small pond. I think his pond is going to dry up for good very shortly.
It's the High Definition Network.
He's got so much money...he should just retire....
It's the Hello Dimwit network.
Your response was definantly the best on this thread, and really identifies the real problem behind that man, Dan Rather. Was he liberal, yes. But that in itself is not a horrible thing. Unfortunate and misguied? Of course. But his real problem was an inner dissatisfaction with himself, and a delusional focus on himself that drove him to t he heights of sucess and ultimatly the depths of infamy.
Cuban has troubles of his own. A $250K fine and a lousy basketball team.
Can you say "choke"?
Cripes, I live in a North Dallas suburb and I never heard of this channel!
Well Dan, now that you're not working for CBS anymore I think I know where you can find future employment. Something well suited to you. S..king off goats in Texas at a nickel a herd!!!!!!!!!!!
me either, but in all honesty, some of the Ratherisms that spring up on every election night are pretty dang funny. I have fun waiting for him to spew forth with one, then laughing at him (not with him) for being such a dufus.
'In a van down by the river!!!'
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
Or leaving like Steve Martin, in "the Jerk", shuffling off with his pants down at his knees, taking some possessions with him, "like this chair..."
Thanks
"Mr Rather should be going to jail rather than to another job. His biased reporting of the fake Bush military memos was election tampering IMHO."
Yeah, and thank God it blew up in his face. But there's no crime against biased reporting, sadly. LOL. There would be a lot of people going to jail if it were! ;)
Not to mention the way the lamestream media covered the 2000 and 2004 elections. It was not just Rather. It was the whole bunch.
Hi Diana..just sent you a private message about this CBS eye...thanks!
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