*Fielding preselected audience questions, the former anchor analyzes today's news. Memogate emerges only obliquely.* If there were any hard questions for Dan Rather, the former anchor and managing editor for CBS Evening News, they would have to wait. (snip) What journalism needs, Rather told the audience, is more: more backbone in questioning powerful leaders, more facts (and less speculation), more money and time from publishers, and more international coverage. Journalists, he said, must recognize that they have a duty and reconnect with their role in a system of checks and balances. "American journalism needs a spine transplant and we need...