http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/19/AR2007091901445.html
Dan Rather Sues CBS, Seeking To ‘Restore His Reputation’
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 20, 2007; Page C01
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Rather’s lawyer, Martin Gold, said last night: “Dan is bringing this lawsuit to restore his reputation. He’s not doing this for the money,” he added, saying that Rather would donate most of any court award to journalistic causes.
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The debacle over the National Guard story, which the suit says became known as “Rathergate,” turned on 30-year-old memos said to have been written by Bush’s late squadron commander. Several newspapers, including The Washington Post, and conservative bloggers gathered evidence that the documents were unlikely to have been typed on government typewriters of that era.
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Gold, Rather’s lawyer, maintained that “nobody’s proved the documents were forgeries. The way we look at it, it’s more than likely the documents are authentic.”
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Must read.
http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/09/20/dan-you-oaf/
Dan Rather is proves himself once again to be such a egotistical fool. He’s crying — puffy red eyes and all — and suing CBS because they eased him aside (when they should have dumped him long before). He still refuses to take responsibility for muffing a story and harming his own credibility and that of the network and, for that matter, the profession — the Times said he doesn’t think there was anything to apologize for and, indeed, says the apology he did give was “coerced.”
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And right there is the problem with all this: the elevation of the reporter, the presenter, the hack — to use the better British terms — into overexposed, overpaid, undermanaged, self-important personality. And as the Times story notes, the new overpaid, overexposed personality in Rather’s chair isn’t helping the network either. The anchor model is not only broken, it’s dangerous. It produces Dan Rathers.
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