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CBS News Plans Dan Rather Tribute
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| 8/16/06
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Posted on 08/17/2006 2:10:03 AM PDT by beyond the sea
CBS News has scheduled a prime-time salute to Dan Rather, with the newsman talking about what it was like to leave as "CBS Evening News" anchor after a quarter-century and his plans for the future.
The special, "Dan Rather: A Reporter Remembers," didn't exactly get a plum time slot: CBS will air it at 9 p.m. on the Friday before Labor Day weekend. CBS said it wanted to get the special on the air before Katie Couric's debut as evening-news anchor on Sept. 5.
CBS promised the special as a good-faith gesture to Rather when it announced in June that he would be leaving.
It incorporates material from a prime-time Rather special that ran shortly after he stepped down as anchor in March 2005, but with a fresh interview. Rather is joining HDNet, a small network for owners of high-definition sets, to do a news show this fall.
"The CBS News audience, they stuck by me through sunshine and storms, and through the good times and bad times," he says in the show.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: buckhead; cbs; rather
"Memo Real; Nobody Lied"
"Good riddance to this lying, treasonous, pompous, pretentious, flatulent gas bag." -- unknown FReeper
To: All
........ Belated Barf Alert.
;-)
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posted on
08/17/2006 2:12:11 AM PDT
by
beyond the sea
(The truth exists even when ignored.)
To: beyond the sea
Cheaper and faster than the lawsuit he's
been threatening then with, i guess....
To: beyond the sea
"CBS will air it at 9 p.m. on the Friday before Labor Day weekend."Ha ha! Wonderful!
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posted on
08/17/2006 2:26:16 AM PDT
by
guitar4jesus
(Black, Conservative . . . and I vote!)
To: beyond the sea
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posted on
08/17/2006 2:44:01 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
(I HAVE A TRACFONE!!!)
To: beyond the sea
A Reporter Remembers Fortunately we don't have to rely on Dan's memory. His body of work, flawed as it is, is well documented. I'd rather see, Dan Rather: A Reporter Confesses
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posted on
08/17/2006 3:03:37 AM PDT
by
vamoose
To: beyond the sea
If CBS wants to hurt their ratings, this is a good way to do it!
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posted on
08/17/2006 3:53:56 AM PDT
by
proudofthesouth
(Mao said that power comes at the point of a rifle; I say FREEDOM does.)
To: Dallas59
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posted on
08/17/2006 3:54:15 AM PDT
by
beyond the sea
(The truth exists even when ignored.)
To: beyond the sea
Sad.
Sad end to a pathetic career in a dysfunctional institution.
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posted on
08/17/2006 3:58:05 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(NYT Headline: 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake But Accurate, Experts Say.')
To: beyond the sea
CBS News: Fake, But Accurate
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posted on
08/17/2006 3:59:35 AM PDT
by
petercooper
(Is this where I get me a huntin' license?)
To: beyond the sea
Another attempt at the rehabilitation of dan rather .
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posted on
08/17/2006 4:22:45 AM PDT
by
lionheart 247365
(( I.S.L.A.M. stands for - Islams Spiritual Leaders Advocate Murder .. .. .. ))
To: beyond the sea
Given the public bashing that SeeBS has given Dandy Dan (Fake But Accurate) Blather of late, this strikes me as trying to close the corral after the horse done got out.
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posted on
08/17/2006 4:25:15 AM PDT
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: beyond the sea
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posted on
08/17/2006 4:52:11 AM PDT
by
mirkwood
(Gun control isn't about guns. It's about control.)
To: beyond the sea
we can all be certain, the tribute will be full of lies, aka SeeBS
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posted on
08/17/2006 5:18:45 AM PDT
by
From One - Many
(Trust the Old Media At Your Own Risk)
To: guitar4jesus
CBS will air it at 9 p.m. on the Friday before Labor Day weekend."
Ha ha! Wonderful!
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I await with bated breath the publicity campaign with which CBS will advertise this special. I'm sure they will spare every expense.
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posted on
08/17/2006 5:48:59 AM PDT
by
Cheburashka
(World's only Spatula City certified spatula repair and maintenance specialist!!!)
To: beyond the sea
Fortunately, it will air on CBS, where no one will see it. ;)
To: proudofthesouth
If CBS wants to hurt their ratings, this is a good way to do it!
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This won't hurt their ratings, this tribute is being buried by being broadcast when as few people as possible will see it.
Your tag line: Of course you both are right. It depends on which of you has the gun.
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posted on
08/17/2006 5:58:51 AM PDT
by
Cheburashka
(World's only Spatula City certified spatula repair and maintenance specialist!!!)
To: beyond the sea
I hope they have a special section reserved for the Freepers!
They are the folks who truly advanced ol Dan's career.
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posted on
08/17/2006 6:02:22 AM PDT
by
newcthem
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