Dan Rather to leave CBS after 44 years

Whereever Rather goes, I go. I'd love to see him get involved with some projects with Bill Moyers. There's still some fight in him yet!

I'll follow Rather.

with billionaire Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, for some sort of news show. Not sure though.

fades into oblivion

The story about Bush's (lack of) military service was true.

Here. http://cbs11tv.com/

Bush only went AWOL because he knew that decades later, Rather would include a document forged by Karl Rove in a true fact story.

6:30 pm.


Why can't they do it on 6:00 PM or 7:00 PM. Why can't one of them be independent of others?

If you miss that time, you missed any network newscasts on that day.

F'em! Turnoff the TV!

You're too good for the Couric Broadcasting Syrup network.

Watch this.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8047195668805856401&q=mary+mapes


"For twenty-five years, Mary Mapes has been an award-winning television producer and reporter -the last fifteen years have been for CBS News, principally for "The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather" and "60 Minutes". Following the broadcast of Dan Rather's story on George W. Bush's National Guard Service, Ms. Mapes was fired, Dan Rather's stepped down from his anchor chair a year early, and an unprecedented "internal" inquiry into the story occurred. "

On the day Reagan was shot in 1981 I was at home with my two very small kids, turning from network to network to find out what was happening. (Maybe cable existed in those days, but I didn't have it, and was dialing around CBS ABC and NBC for updates.) ABC's anchor announced that they had reliable news from the hospital that Press Secretary Jim Brady had died. I hated hearing that news so I flipped to NBC. Almost immediately, the NBC anchor also announced that Brady had died. So I flipped over to CBS where Dan Rather was holding the fort. He was speaking of something else, when I could see clearly someone slipped a piece of paper onto the desk in front of him. He looked at it quickly, then turned to the off camera person and asked, "Do we have confirmation on this?" It was obvious the answer was "no", so he said "We'll wait for confirmation before we air this" and went on with whatever else he'd been talking about. It was very clear shortly thereafter that the "scoop" he rejected was the one the other two anchors had aired erroneously. Jim Brady, although horrible hurt, survived, as we all know.
So anyway, from that point on, the only network news I watched was CBS. That is until they screwed Dan over on the Bush awol/draft dodge story. Thank you Dan. I think of you as the last of the real pros.

He fell to the little smirker in chief.
Please tell all Mr. Rather.
AWOL chimp struts off.
:dem:

Call it Karma, I guess.

Chronic Bull Shit