<p>It looks like Dan Rather got the boot from CBS for good. Is anyone going to miss this guy? I can’t say I ever liked him.</p>
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<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/business/media/17rath.html?ei=5094&en=447326e1643df130&hp=&ex=1150516800&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/business/media/17rath.html?ei=5094&en=447326e1643df130&hp=&ex=1150516800&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print</a></p>
<p>I liked him. He was intense and a bit overly serious, but I enjoyed his idiosyncratic expressions. I guess I was just used to him for so many years. I respected the fact that he was the son of a single mom who worked as a waitress. Couldn’t abide Jennings – too smarmy and said to have a serious zipper problem a la Clinton (this confirmed by a newscaster friend). Brokaw seems like a fine person; never got in the habit of watching him.</p>
<p>It was time for him to retire years ago. He had a long significant career. Sad to say when you retire that old, what can you enjoy? Maybe just sitting in front of the tube watching your replacement.</p>
<p>I do not think that age is the overwhelming factor. Doesn’t the geriatric crowd at 60 minutes still deliver -not to mention the Price is Right’s Parker?</p>
<p>What doomed Dan Rather are displays of incredible bad judment and overly subjective antics such as his anchoring of the last election night. His analysis about the probability of Kerry winning the last state was simply ridiculous, and he could not claim to have been fooled by a modern typesetting device.</p>