Rather to Resign 'CBS Evening News' Post
We knew this was coming. Rush Limbaugh said it shortly after the scandal involving forged memos.
What really puzzles me is how ABC news announced it. "ABC News has learned that Dan Rather will step down as anchor of the CBS Evening News next spring." ABC News has learned? What planet have they been on, to miss the plans that were laid long before this for Dan Rather to leave the anchor desk? How can this possibly be such a big deal?
Sam Donaldson is crying a few crocodile tears, saying that rumor will always have him being forced to retire. Well, mark this well, all you future historians, because you read it here first: Dan Rather has done and is doing nothing that he didn't want to do. The Thornburgh Commission hasn't even returned a report on the affair of the Killian memos. He had always planned to retire this spring, even before that story broke. His departure now, frankly, gives me no satisfaction--because his leavetaking does not erase his deeds, nor have we any evidence that the leavetaking constitutes the just retribution for those same deeds.
More to the point, I still fail to see that Dan Rather's leavetaking will solve the basic problem with the MSM. They'll still be their same arrogant, biased selves, refusing to admit that any reasonable person could disagree with their ideas for a sound society or even with the basic facts of any given controversy, whether that controversy involve the War Against Terror or the culture war in this country.
And until certain network executives climb down from their high horses, Fox News Channel and other alternative outlets will claim an ever-increasing share of their viewership and audience.
What really puzzles me is how ABC news announced it. "ABC News has learned that Dan Rather will step down as anchor of the CBS Evening News next spring." ABC News has learned? What planet have they been on, to miss the plans that were laid long before this for Dan Rather to leave the anchor desk? How can this possibly be such a big deal?
Sam Donaldson is crying a few crocodile tears, saying that rumor will always have him being forced to retire. Well, mark this well, all you future historians, because you read it here first: Dan Rather has done and is doing nothing that he didn't want to do. The Thornburgh Commission hasn't even returned a report on the affair of the Killian memos. He had always planned to retire this spring, even before that story broke. His departure now, frankly, gives me no satisfaction--because his leavetaking does not erase his deeds, nor have we any evidence that the leavetaking constitutes the just retribution for those same deeds.
More to the point, I still fail to see that Dan Rather's leavetaking will solve the basic problem with the MSM. They'll still be their same arrogant, biased selves, refusing to admit that any reasonable person could disagree with their ideas for a sound society or even with the basic facts of any given controversy, whether that controversy involve the War Against Terror or the culture war in this country.
And until certain network executives climb down from their high horses, Fox News Channel and other alternative outlets will claim an ever-increasing share of their viewership and audience.
posted by Temlakos at 4:06 PM
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