Dan Departs: Legal Action Not Ruled Out

By Brian 

Dan Rather “has not agreed to any settlement with CBS; the network plans to keep paying out his current contract, which runs through November,” the Observer’s Rebecca Dana reports.

Even more important: “Rather has not signed a nondisclosure agreement — and he has not agreed to rule out legal action against the network. In his final statement, Mr. Rather emphasized that he was leaving ‘before the term of my contract’ and wrote that CBS ‘had not lived up to their obligation to allow me to do substantive work.'” Sean McManus said the thought of legal action hadn’t occurred to him…

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