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The ratings for Katie Couric's CBS Evening News may be down – but the upbeat anchor isn't. Claiming that despite her third-place ranking among the major three network newscasts, she's "feeling great" and "having a great time," Couric tells USA Today, "We kind of ignore people who are observing everything we do and praising, criticizing or analyzing it, and we're just doing what we want." Couric, who delivered a ratings wallop with her Sept. 5 debut, says that being in first place "was never an expectation by anyone at CBS News, and it shouldn't have been an expectation by anyone...

K-K-K-Katie Couric begins her transmissions this evening. I think this is the CBS video LINK.

The news that Dan Rather is being left at the entrance of the ''Ancient Liberals’ Home'' by CBS, and that NBC’s Today’s ratings have not even noticed that Katie Couric is missing, is enough to bring a tear of joy to any conservative’s eye. This combined with the pathetic sight of the MSM trying to stop the conservative tractor trailer that is Ann Coulter’s Godless is enough to turn those tears to leaps. The best way to make this conservative trifecta a quartet of joy would be if Couric’s CBS ratings turned out to be compost. Good Riddance, Kenneth Seeing...

CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves said on Wednesday he was sorry about the bitter departure of newsman Dan Rather, who left the broadcaster after protracted talks to renew his contract fell apart. ..media watchers said Rather appeared to have been slowly pushed off the air... "I'm sorry it ended the way it did," Moonves told executives at a PricewaterhouseCoopers media event. "There was no bigger role for him to play anymore," ...

With Katie Couric lounging in the wings, Dan Rather is now expendable, and the suits at CBS News are squeezing him out of his last remaining gig on "60 Minutes." This has caused great distress for those who like their news to look like a long commercial for MoveOn.org, which is to say, the Dan Rather fan club. CBS smiled politely as they pushed him away, but the Philadelphia Inquirer quoted an anonymous former CBS executive, who denounced the shove-off as "disgraceful. He's a legend. He gave his life to that company. Even though he made a big mistake, he...

Emptying out his cubbyhole office in the CBS News building on West 57th Street in New York, wading through stacks and boxes of memorabilia accumulated over the years, Dan Rather came upon a piece of framed embroidery made and sent to him a couple decades ago by a nun who was, one might say, among the faithful -- a regular and loyal viewer.

    Rather to Host His Own Farewell Tribute on CBS Thu Feb 17, 2005 08:31 PM ET By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - No sooner will Dan Rather bid viewers a final good night as anchor of the CBS Evening News than he will be back on the air to lead viewers through a retrospective of his 50 years in broadcast journalism. CBS News said on Thursday that an hourlong special, "Dan Rather: A Reporter Remembers," will be telecast on March 9, at 8 p.m. EST, within an hour of his stepping down as host and managing...

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Excerpt .. balance at link The Education of Dan Rather From the golden age of network TV to the end of its hegemony. Thursday, December 2, 2004 12:01 a.m. EST Life is complicated, people are complicated, and most of us are a jumble of virtues, flaws and contradictions. I like to try to understand the past, try to put it together in a way that makes sense to me. This can involve judging not only your own actions and decisions but those of others, which can be hard. I have a friend who once said in the middle of a...

CBS Uber-Anchor Dan Rather has elected to step down. The time has come and he's recognized fate when it struck him soundly between the eyes. He also claims that the hoohah over the Bush Memo Story had nothing to do with his decision, which is totally ludicrous. Unlike King Lear who stayed well past his prime, Dan Rather has added up the score. Rather has forced himself to admit the truth and accept that the game has passed him by. With that stunning admission, from a man who expected to dominate the media world for another ten years, an era...

Dan Rather (and CBS News) got snookered by political malcontents with an ax to grind. Again. Consider: Both President Bush and Sen. John Kerry say they adamantly oppose reinstitution of the military draft, which was ended in 1973. The Pentagon also says it is vehemently opposed to giving up the all-volunteer army. But that didn't stop "The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather" and reporter Richard Schlesinger from airing a story Tuesday about a Pennsylvania woman's fears that her sons will be drafted. "I think there's a good possibility," said Beverly Cocco, ID'd only as an average voter, and a...

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- The Center for Individual Freedom, a Virginia-based, constitutional advocacy group filed a complaint last week with the Federal Election Commission charging that CBS and Kerry-Edwards 2004, Inc. illegally coordinated election communications. The complaint charges that CBS and the Kerry campaign violated federal campaign finance laws when they colluded to attack President George W. Bush based on claims and documents now believed to be fake. Jeffrey Mazzella, the Center's Executive Director, said in a press release, "It's obvious that CBS and the Kerry campaign acted improperly. That much is clear to anyone with a pulse." Mazzella added,...

As headlines read "Triumph of the bloggers" and Reuters posits that American journalism may never be the same, a media watchdog and conservative web group are leading protests today outside CBS' Washington headquarters. The event led by Accuracy in Media and Free Republic comes the day after anchor Dan Rather and CBS News President Andrew Heyward issued statements saying they no longer will defend the authenticity of documents used in a Sept. 8 "60 Minutes II" report that raised questions about President Bush's National Guard service. Free Republic began as a staunchly conservative web community but has been drawing a...

According to the CBS News web site, tonight's CBS Evening News will address the latest developments in Rathergate. Let's pile on.

I had to wait until after lunch before sharing my thoughts because, quite frankly, I was so baffled at the CBS Evening News With Dan Rather "story" September 15, and a companion "report" on 60 Minutes II over the controversy about that network's prior "journalism" on alleged National Guard documents concerning George W. Bush. For some reason - and fellow colleagues in the press have chided me for this - I expected Rather to not only do his own reporting on the nightly news (which he did not) but also to apologize for his prior reporting if only to say...

Rather Must be Fired Now. Congress Should Subpoena CBS News' Lawyers and all Documentation of Their Advice. I try to be fair-minded. I try not to reach snap judgments. I try to "see the other side." I try not to overstate. But in this post, I will express opinions that are as blunt and as strongly felt as any I've ever stated in my life. Nothing in this post is sarcasm or snark. This is as serious as a heart attack — and it's no longer funny to me, but a national disgrace and a national tragedy. On Thursday, September...

1.  Dan Rather should have known he was in trouble when TV Guide listed the CBS Evening News under "Sitcoms"2.  Dan Rather get pulled over for speeding.  After examining Rather's license and registration, the state trooper asked Rather for a second form of ID and independent confirmation.3.  Dan Rather has trouble sleeping due to nightmares involving little green footballs4.  After being fired from CBS, The Onion turned down Dan Rather's job application due to questions of journalistic integrity

Sorry for the vanity...Dan Rather, who has now become Baghdad Bob, needs an equivalent name or monicker hung on him for posterity...sure would be fun to see old Dan go out like the joke he has become. We've got some creative and hysterical FReeper comedians here...is there another SoreLoserman to be achieved?

Gary Killian, son of the "author" of the CBS memos, just stated on air that when he tried to bring to CBS's attention the likelihood that the memos supposedly written by his father were dubious, they ignored his input, as well as his suggestion that they talk with some of Bush's co-pilots who would've vouched for Bush's performance as an Air Guardsman!