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Dan Rather Has Learned to Resist In the past 21/2 years my path has twice crossed that of Dan Rather, the CBS anchor who has long represented the best of professional journalism for me. Both times he was in Southern California to accept well-deserved awards. Both times a handful of pickets were nearby claiming Mr. Rather's reporting was biased. The first time, June 9, 2001, Mr. Rather received a lifetime achievement award from the Los Angeles Press Club, of which I was then executive director as well as producer of the dinner, and where the honor was graciously presented by...

<p>Alex is the editor at "Television Week" who interviewed members of the Los Angeles Chapter at our "RatherBIASED" FReep earlier this week - outside the Beverly Hills Hotel.</p> <p>Mr. Block interviewed Cinnamon Girl, Doctor ZIn and yours truly for quite some time, so I would imagine that he will also write extensively about us (and our FReep) in his weekly column for Television Week.</p> <p>In his e-mail, he did ask for my telephone number, presumably to get further input from me (as leader of that FReep) - prior to publication.</p>