Dan Departs: Notes & Quotes

> Dan Rather and Connie Chung‘s “separate and drastically declined careers would share headlines again — and in the same week,” Melanie McFarland writes. “As for which wins the competition for most pathetic, you be the judge…”

> Public Eye looks at Anthony Mason‘s long Evening News package about Rather: “You’re writing the story first,” then “you’re writing for the front office, you’re writing for the critics. You’re also writing for the people you work with, your colleagues who are going to judge it in their own way and then, lastly, you’re writing for Dan…”

> A letter to the editor in Thursday’s USA Today: “The likes of Dan Rather shall not pass this way again. I give him enormous credit for a job well done…”

> Geraldo Rivera on Rather’s removal: “Shame on them. CBS kicks Dan Rather out on the street after 44 years of usually wonderful work” (via NewsBusters)…

> And here’s what Rush Limbaugh thinks of the Rather ordeal…