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When the Anchor Drops
The Washington Post ^
| Tuesday, June 27, 2006
| Art Buchwald
Posted on 06/27/2006 9:06:00 AM PDT by keat
Goodbye to Dan Rather. He was a good man and served CBS for 44 years with distinction.
Television is a tough business. When it's time to go, you go . And if you don't go the way they want you to, they get very upset. They tell the world you weren't a very good anchorman to start with and you stuttered a lot. Also, you weren't very sincere on the air.
CBS, like other television networks, has a tremendous public relations staff. It's bigger than the news staff. The job of the PR department is to portray the network in a very good light and, when someone's number is up, show how he or she was very bad at reading news copy.
Money is not an issue when television wants to get rid of someone. Rather was getting $7 million a year and could write off the clothes he wore on the air.
This is how it works with anchormen. You are a star. You have your own office, a staff of people working for you, a limousine, an expense account and credit at any restaurant within 20 miles of your office.
Dan was a very private person and was in the same category as Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings. Whenever I met him, I said, "What's new?"
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: buckheadstrophy; rather; ratherbiased
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Read the whole thing.
It's a roller coaster piece for sure.
And I thought Buchwald was near death.
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posted on
06/27/2006 9:06:02 AM PDT
by
keat
To: keat
Don't let the Door hit your a$$ on the way out!
To: keat
When it's time to go, you go And one can hasten departure by getting caught using fake documents.
CBS didn't care that the document was fake, getting caught though was grounds for dismissal.
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posted on
06/27/2006 9:10:38 AM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(3.03)
To: keat
Art Buchwald is still alive???
4
posted on
06/27/2006 9:10:47 AM PDT
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: keat
Goodbye to Dan Rather. He was a good man and served CBS for 44 years with distinction. I agree with the "Stink" part of distinction.
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posted on
06/27/2006 9:13:47 AM PDT
by
Bommer
(Attention illegals: Why don't you do the jobs we can't do? Like fix your own countries problems!)
To: keat
Dan ...was in the same category as Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings.And that category is "GONE."
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posted on
06/27/2006 9:14:09 AM PDT
by
hsalaw
To: ASA Vet
CBS didn't care that the document was fake, getting caught though was grounds for dismissal. "As usual, Mr. Rather, if any of your IM staff is caught or killed, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. Good luck, Dan!" (Fizzzzzzzz!)
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posted on
06/27/2006 9:15:06 AM PDT
by
50sDad
(ST3d: Real Star Trek 3d Chess: http://my.ohio.voyager.net/~abartmes/tactical.htm)
To: keat
When the Anchor Drops
. . . we'll have no place to stay.
Oh, wait. That's what happens when the levee breaks.
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posted on
06/27/2006 9:16:15 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(We all know power corrupts, yet we all want electricity.)
To: keat
We were the great ones. Mike and I will go down in history with Walter Cronkite and Maury Povich.Egotistical #sswipe.
Povich?
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posted on
06/27/2006 9:16:31 AM PDT
by
oyez
(Appeasement is insanity)
To: 11th Commandment
re: Don't let the Door hit your a$$ on the way out!
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Well, you are not going to want to miss this. GO ASK A QUESTION HERE
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posted on
06/27/2006 9:16:41 AM PDT
by
doug from upland
(Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
To: keat
When the Anchor Drops
NEXT!
Katie? You there yet!
We won't be watching you, but we'll still know what you're up to.
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posted on
06/27/2006 9:17:23 AM PDT
by
adorno
To: keat
"We were the great ones. Mike and I will go down in history
LOL! ROTFLMBO!! HA HA HA!!
Is he trying out for Leno's job so soon?
To: keat
Leave it to the Post to say something nice about their dishonest, good-for-nothing colleague. The Post's action says alot about the Post itself--definitely nothing good there.
To: keat
He was a good man...
A deservedly lukewarm farewell.
How apropos.
To: GrandEagle
We were the great ones.But...but...
He was a good man...The Washington Post said so.
Aren't good and great different things?
To: philman_36
Aren't good and great different things?
Sure. There is also a big difference in being a good man and being good at what you do.
Jimmy Carter is a good man, he was a horrible President.
(Legal Disclaimer: You opinion may vary. Subject specimen for illustration purposes only. No representation is being made....blah blah).
Cordially,
GE
To: keat
Art must have had his rose colored glasses or his vodka goggles on. What a load of tripe.
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posted on
06/27/2006 12:54:15 PM PDT
by
Surtur
(Free Trade is NOT Fair Trade unless both economies are equivalent.)
To: keat
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posted on
06/27/2006 12:55:32 PM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
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To: GrandEagle
I
knew I should've put an /sarcasm on that.
Jimmy Carter is a good man, he was a horrible President.
You have different standards than I of what a "good" man is if you consider him to be one. He's pretty low on my totem pole of "good" men.
I do strongly agree with you that he was a horrible President.
You opinion may vary.
How write you are.
To: keat
When I called back to CBS, they said the last they'd seen of Dan Rather, he was flying down outside the 30th-floor window of the CBS building.Wow.
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posted on
06/27/2006 1:12:51 PM PDT
by
keat
(I'm carbon neutral - how 'bout you?)
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