nytimes.com — Dan Rather, whose career at CBS News ground to an inglorious end 15 months ago over his role in an unsubstantiated report questioning President Bush’s Vietnam-era National Guard service, filed a $70 million lawsuit this afternoon against the network, its corporate parent and three of his former superiors.
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compdude32Sep 20, 2007
Yea I guess it takes balls to try to fraudulently change the outcome of an election. But then again this is the liberal way, they can't win elections on ideas so they try to win them through lies.
gabrielsSep 20, 2007
Lead anchors are also editors. Tim Russert is Washington Bureau Chief for NBC News. Dan Rather was more than just a narrator.
gkiltzSep 21, 2007
It does not matter whether or not George Bushe did or did not receive special treatment in the Texas National Guard! The issue is whether the document in question CAME ANYWHERE CLOSE to being genuine, let alone proving that point! Even IF the document in question was a legit second or third generation photocopy(That is a copy of a photocopy, possibly of a photocopy!) the most it was capable of proving is that, in the 1960s at least, the Texas National Guard was poorly run, which was long since old news by that time! You flat out CANNOT VERIFY THE ORIGIN OF A PHOTOCOPY! A cleaver trixter can simply do too many things to it that you'll never prove. It is clear that someone allowed their own personal DEEP SEATED PERSONAL HATE for George W Bush to taint the report in many ways. Whether Dan Rather was actually the perpetrator, he at least was fully aware that the story was tainted by someone's emotions. Clearly he shared those emotions so deeply that he could not report on that story! OBJECTIVITY IS A GOAL, IT IS SOMETHING EVERY JOURNALIST SHOULD STRIVE FOR, FAIRNESS IS A PREREQUISITE TO BRANDING YOURSELF AS A JOURNALIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!When your own emotions reach that level, you need to recuse yourself from the story. Dan Rather KNEW THAT VERY WELL! As a professional, he needed to recuse himself from that story, and admit he could not be fair, let alone objective! It takes someone with quite a large ego to do what Dan Rather did for so many years, and, that, I suppose is the nature of network television, butif he sees what happend to him over this as scapegoating, he goes beyond egotistical, and has crossed the line into delusional.
theathlonSep 21, 2007
Good point. As I recall it came out that the document experts hired by CBS told the producers of the segment that since the document was a copy, it could never be proven to be genuine, it could only be proven to be false.Going forward with the segment and making the claims they did was career suicide for Dan and his producer. The truth is Dan and his cohorts so wanted this information to be true that they went ahead and reported it as fact and damn the torpedoes. So Dan lost his job-because he deserved to lose it!