Dan Rather laments ‘sad day for journalism’ after company settles for $16m over 60 Minutes

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A former CBS News anchor and 60 minutes correspondent, Dan Rather, has blasted the $16m settlement between Paramount, the parent company of CBS News, and Donald Trump, calling it a “sad day for journalism”.

“It’s a sad day for 60 Minutes and CBS News,” Rather, a veteran journalist who was a CBS News anchor for over 20 years, told Variety in an interview published on Wednesday. “I hope people will read the details of this and understand what it was. It was distortion by the president and a kneeling down and saying, ‘yes, sir,’ by billionaire corporate owners.”

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A former CBS News anchor and 60 minutes correspondent, Dan Rather, has blasted the $16m settlement between Paramount, the parent company of CBS News, and Donald Trump, calling it a “sad day for journalism”.

“It’s a sad day for 60 Minutes and CBS News,” Rather, a veteran journalist who was a CBS News anchor for over 20 years, told Variety in an interview published on Wednesday. “I hope people will read the details of this and understand what it was. It was distortion by the president and a kneeling down and saying, ‘yes, sir,’ by billionaire corporate owners.”

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It's a pittance compared to an $8B business merger. Pedo Don loooooves his graft.
 

Dan Rather fought the truth and won, and the media never recovered​

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The narrative — that Bush was a nasty, evil, bad, bad, bad, bad man — was correct, Rather argued: Facts were and are irrelevant.

Remember, he stuck by the fake story for years and tried to make himself out as a victim of a sinister plot at CBS, when in fact he suffered only thanks to his own partisan rage and midwit hubris.

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He seemed an outlier at the time, even in a media landscape that most certainly leaned left and did its best to run interference on his BS. (Remember the immortal “Fake But Accurate” New York Times headline about the forged docs?)

But he ended up writing the law our stenographer class lives by today.

That being: Journalism exists to help Democrats, period.

By trying to suffocate bad stories about Hunter Biden (including his 100% real laptop) to fend off the political harm they might do his dad.

Or greasing the path for the Biden administration to lie about inflation or the border crisis.

Or going to bat for the Chinese government’s version of where COVID came from while shrieking for useless draconian measures against the virus here at home based on nonsense data.

Here we are, almost two decades later, with Ratherism near-triumphant and the actual goals of journalism in near-ruin.

So, great work, Dan.

You and your pals helped wreck a key institution of American life.

The only casualty was the truth.

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Dan Rather fought the truth and won, and the media never recovered

Why did Dan Rather leave CBS? After all, he fought the truth and won, and journalism never recovered.
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