Dan Rather sues CBS for $70 million

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Dan Rather sues CBS for $70 million
By Michelle Nichols 1 hour, 47 minutes ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former CBS news anchor Dan Rather sued the network on Wednesday for $70 million, saying CBS violated his contract by depriving him of air time and made him a scapegoat to “pacify the White House.”

Rather was removed as anchor of the “CBS Evening News” after 24 years in March 2005 after a scandal over a September 8, 2004, report on President George W. Bush’s military record that he presented in the middle of the presidential race between the Republican Bush and Democrat John Kerry, a Vietnam veteran.

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But in June he said the CBS Evening News had been dumbed down and “tarted up,” comments CBS called a sexist swipe at his successor, Katie Couric, who has struggled to turn around a ratings decline.

Sounds like he’s decompensating.

 

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I hope they both lose.

 

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Maybe CBS can write Dan a check with a bogus account number and then they can say, “Hey just because the document is bogus doesn’t mean anything.”