“‘It may not have been the wisest thing I’ve done this week,’ Dan Rather joked yesterday by phone from his office in New York.
Wise or not, the former CBS anchor’s comments about the network’s evening newscast have created a firestorm — the kind that is probably good for the TV news business,” Tom Shales writes today.
Also: “Rather said that he never planned an attack on the Evening News or on Couric, but that he was asked about it by Chuck Scarborough” — actually Joe Scarborough — on MSNBC…
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