Rather: CBS 'Doesn't Want Me to' Pursue Bush Guard Story
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Posted by Matthew Sheffield on September 26, 2005 - 20:47.
In a televised interview with former CBSer Marvin Kalb, retired CBS anchor Dan Rather stated that his network will not allow him to continue to pursue the story of President Bush's Air Guard service.
"Straight-up, no chaser, no," the exiled anchor said when asked if he would consider filing a story about it on the "60 Minutes" news magazine since he continues to believe in it.
"CBS News doesn't want me to do that story. They wouldn't let me do that story," Rather said, declining to elaborate further.
Rather also expressed suspicion about bloggers' role in publicizing CBS's mistakes in the whole Memogate affair.
"There are some strange, and to me, still mysterious things, certainly unexplained things that happened about how it got attacked and why, even before the program was over," Rather said, adding that his network was derelict in not "knowing enough of how quickly bloggers could strike."
The anchor appeared to have softened his attitudes toward some (unamed) web authors but remained suspicious about those involved in the exposition of the document scandal. Rather expressed wonder that professional journalists immediately looked at blogger accusations that CBS had run with phony documents."
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