If Dan Rather “had come out with these comments six months ago — say, around the time of the Mount Hood widow interview — they would have resonated.” But Katie Couric‘s CBS Evening News has become “newsier, harder, and less features oriented” under Rick Kaplan, Brian Montopoli blogs on CBSNews.com.
He calls Rather the “John McCain of journalism — he tends to make ill-advised comments without seeming to give much thought to the consequences.” He adds: “If you’re going to publicly attack your former network, after all, it helps to have some message discipline…”
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