I remember how Rather dealt with the allegation in 1992 that Bill Clinton had had an affair with Jennifer Flowers. He completely refused to say anything about the story for months. When he finally reported it, all he said was that Flowers had been paid $150,000 for her story. Years later, Clinton finally admitted to having had the affair when he testified in the Paula Jones lawsuit.
When the Soviet Union was in the throes of collapse, Rather consistently referred to the hardliner holdouts as “conservative.”
Accurate but misleading to his American audience.