June 14, 2007

'Dumbed down, tarted up' - Dan Rather's verdict on his successors at CBS news

Stirring the publicity is Dan Rather, who occupied the anchor chair for 24 years until his departure under a journalistic cloud in March 2005. The programme is in the dumps, he said earlier this week, because under Couric it had been "dumbed" down and "tarted" up. He has stirred a debate not just about Couric but also about the viability of hard news in the celebrity era.

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