After 44 years, Dan Rather will leave CBS by the end of the month, at the latest, industry sources said Friday. His departure could come as early as next week. Rather, 74, whose contract runs until late November, is working out the final details of his exit agreement, the sources say. Money is not an issue, they say. Among the sticking points: Whether Rather will have access to his archival CBS material.
Anchor of CBS Evening News for a record 24 years until being forced out in March ‘05 by the Memogate scanda, Rather was fighting to stay at the network in some “meaningful” capacity. It was clear that the network wanted him gone.
California Conservative » Rather out at CBS
Yes, I remember it. Spanish TV anchors were enchanted with his news. You see, the Anti-Americanism, teh Anti-Bush campaign and that… It was a pity for them that the news were finally FALSE.
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Dan Rather Reportedly Out At CBS (UPDATED)
For some time now an eyebrow has been raised over the CBS eye when it came to former news megastar Dan Rather.
I knew Dan Rather from the letter he replied to when I reminded him, for the upcoming 20th Anniversary commemoration of the Fall of Saigon, who it was that stayed behind and covered the story for CBS after it’s entire staff bugged out in the panic. His letter said he’d bring this to CBS’ attention, producers etc. That was the last I heard from the guy who “venerates the Ed Murrow tradition”—or any of the others who were congratulating themselves over CBS coverage of that ‘Story of the Decade.’
You mean he’s now sipping a glass of milk in a diner, moaning to an employee of “Pinch” Sulzberger?
he, he, he, he 😉
Yes, that is what he seems to be doing now.
So he was a proud fellow, ¿ehhhh? Well, for your information he is in Somalia. Or at least he was last May.
Not a very good job for the leading anchor, is it? 🙂