Posted on 08/12/2008 11:16:45 AM PDT by jazusamo
bfl
He was in the running to succeed Walter Kronkite, but Handsome Dan Rather, as he was known at that time, was annointed, to the dismay of Kronkite.
Roger Mudd was an outstanding journalist, and CBS's choosing Rather over him set the stage for the decline of the MSM.
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