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Dan Rather returns to CBS for the first time 18 years after his disgraced departure
2024-04-29
[NYPOST] Dan Fake but Accurate Rather
...the man who put the BS in CBS News. In 2004 he put on a news story that highlighted dissatisfaction with Lt. George W. Bush in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam war. This was almost casually--but gleefully--debunked by the Blogosphere at large. Rather's face was rubbed in journalistic mud, four of his staff were fired, and within a short time his 43-year (about the same length as Muammar Qadaffi's) career had settled to the bottom, from whence he periodically emits a bubble, which proves he's not dead yet. See BS News, formerly respected, continues putter along, but there's something missing, like viewers...
 returned to the CBS News airwaves for the first time since his bitter exit 18 years ago, appearing in a reflective interview on "CBS Sunday Morning" days before the debut of a Netflix documentary on the 92-year-old newsman’s life.

After 44 years at the network, 24 as anchor of the "CBS Evening News," Rather left under a cloud following a botched investigation into then-President George W. Bush’s military record. Rather signed off as anchor for the last time on March 9, 2005, and exited the network when his contract ended 15 months later.

With continued enmity between him and since-deposed CBS chief Leslie Moonves, Rather essentially became a nonperson at the news division he dominated for decades.

"Without apology or explanation, I miss CBS," Rather told correspondent Lee Cowan in the interview that aired Sunday. "I’ve missed it since the day I left."

Rather escaped official blame for the report that questioned Bush’s Vietnam War-era National Guard service but, as the anchor who introduced it, was identified with it. CBS could not vouch for the authenticity of some documents upon which the report was based, although many people involved in the story still believe it was true.
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Posted by:Fred

#13  

I can see him now in a New TV role and Hosting

"How The Media Lies To The Public"
Presented by the Grand Master Himself
Posted by: NN2N1   2024-04-29 12:23  

#12  I have a Pennsylvania Deutsch friend who is a very successful butcher. He says something that has always stuck with me. "Some people don't like good food."

That applies to art, information, relationships, politics, etc.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2024-04-29 11:47  

#11  Rather is a product of a corporate culture at CBS that went largely undetected until his lie was exposed. They purged him and his immediate associates but the culture continued. In reality, he's no worse than Nora O'Donnell or any of the rest of them. His counter parts at ABC and NBC are all just as bad if not worse. Somebody must still be watching because they're still on the air. That's the hell of it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2024-04-29 11:44  

#10  O.k., Dan, you gonna use the right font this time?
Posted by: DooDahMan   2024-04-29 11:43  

#9  /\ Hey, he only made a colossal career ending mistake once.

Had a nasty, biting dog named Cricket did he ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-04-29 11:20  

#8  Hey, he only made a colossal career ending mistake once.
Posted by: ed in texas   2024-04-29 11:18  

#7  CBS has sunk so low that now Rather appears 'high ground'.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-04-29 10:13  

#6  They are desperate.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2024-04-29 09:59  

#5  Another guy who only regrets he got caught.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2024-04-29 09:54  

#4  By today’s standard he should be on the teaching staff at Harvard somewhere.
Posted by: Super Hose   2024-04-29 09:19  

#3  By today’s journalistic standard he is a hero.

He was a pioneer in the use of 'Truthiness' and "Fake, but accurate' journalism.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2024-04-29 07:14  

#2  By today’s journalistic standard he is a hero.
Posted by: Airandee   2024-04-29 06:47  

#1  What's the frequency, Kenneth?
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2024-04-29 06:27  

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