Dan Rather Considers Suing CBS
Former news anchor Dan Rather is considering filing civil charges against CBS, his former employer, as he things his departure from CBS is under questionable circumstances. We may recall that Rather was caught in the middle of a controversy about the legitimacy of some documents about President George W. Bush’s military records in the election year of 2004 (wher Bush won a second term). This went down in history as the landmark new media-versus-mainstream media battle, as the controversy was fueled and discussed heavily by the blogosphere from all sides of the political spectrum.
Rather said that he brought up several times while at CBS that, after his departure from the anchor desk and assignment as a “60 Minutes” correspondent, the network wasn’t living up to its end of his contract. CBS has said that with the many “60 Minutes” correspondents, there weren’t enough assignments for him.
Rather said that he had never been told what led to his departure from CBS. He said he wasn’t sure whether it was related to the aftermath of the “60 Minutes Wednesday” story on President Bush’s military career that relied in part on unsubstantiated documents.
We earlier wrote that Rather was joining Mark Cuban’s HDNet.
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