Mag bitter truth anchor podcast7/19/2023 But like Rather himself, it’s charged with hurricane-force drama, draped in a larger tale of conspiracy and corruption. The core of Rather’s lawsuit is a mundane contract dispute over whether he received the airtime he was promised in his final year on CBS. He’s suing CBS and its former parent company Viacom-along with Viacom’s chairman, Sumner Redstone CBS chief Leslie Moonves and former CBS News president Andrew Heyward-for $70 million. What a fix.’ ” He nearly spits the word fix. What pure, unadulterated bullshit this whole thing is. Of that report, Rather says, “When I read through it, all I could say to myself, on each page, is, ‘What bullshit. He’s recalling January 10, 2005, when he first received the 224-page report commissioned by CBS that excoriated his infamous 60 Minutes Wednesday segment on President Bush’s National Guard service. “Monday morning, about 8:49-and I think that is the time precisely,” he says. And the memories of the battles that undid him are still fresh on his mind. When Dan Rather sits on a bench in Central Park to tell how his 44-year career at CBS News ended in ignominy and humiliation, he is in fact still waging a war, a bitter and personal one. If he weren’t famous, he’d be mistaken for a veteran of a long-ago war: khaki safari shirt on his back, scuffed combat boots on his feet, that wiry crest of a brow, rheumy eyes under heavy lids, lower lip jutting out like an ornery fish resisting a hook.
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