Once again, former CBS News anchor Dan Rather is creating news rather than reporting it. This week, he sued to reinstate two CBS executives, network president Leslie Moonves and former news division president Andrew Heyward, as defendants in a $70 million breach of contract suit he filed against CBS. The pair were named in Rather’s original 2007 lawsuit but a New York State Supreme Court judge removed them as defendants last year, stating Rather had no case against them.
Meanwhile, as Rather tried to enrich himself through the legal system, he made a call for his cohorts to be enriched by our government, saying in an address to the Aspen Institute that he “personally encourage(s) the president to establish a commission on public media.” Media czar, anyone? Further, he noted the industry had been damaged by “corporate and political influence.” A master of seeing the forest despite the trees, that Dan Rather. Now turn the telescope around.
The former CBS Evening News anchor, who was forced out after a scandal just prior to the 2004 presidential election involving forged documents about former President George W. Bush’s military service, now produces an hour-long program called “Dan Rather Reports” for the little-watched HDNet. At least that’s what we’ve heard.
