Dan Rather leaving? I thought he was gone already
"Dan deserves better," says Max Robins in this week's Broadcasting & Cable about the bum's rush being afforded the now-formally-ousted CBS anchor. Frazier Moore hit it more on the head, I thought, when he argued that you knew, given Rather's stubbornness, that his tenure at CBS was bound to end badly. And so it has.
A moment of silence for Dan.
And now, a moment of silence for Harry Shearer's "Bad Day at Black Rock" bit, which probably played its last chapter this weekend.
I talked to Harry on Tuesday (from New Orleans, where wife Judith Owen is recording her next ablum) and here's what he had to say about Dan, his years lampooning CBS News and Shearer's laugh-out-loud compilation CD of his best bits, "Dropping Anchors," which I can't recommend too highly, and what he thinks about the potential of new media after a year of writing for HuffingtonPost.com.
