I've never been a Dan Rather fan, for the usual reasons, but there's something disgraceful in the way CBS is treating him, blackballing him out the door after having given virtually his entire career to CBS News. The piece in last Saturday's NYT really was close to heartbreaking, to see a man like that robbed of his dignity, and humiliated by the news organization to which he was so devoted. Surely there was a more graceful way for CBS to have handled this. Surely.
That said, I hope Rather doesn't partner up with Mark Cuban for a news program on HDNet. There's something deeply Norma Desmond-y about that.
Goodbye Gunga Dan
Wednesday June 21, 2006
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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