Rather To Return, But Who'll Be Watching? (from imdb.com)

[girl gone mad]

Stupid headline, but good news.

Dan Rather and billionaire Mark Cuban have confirmed that they have reached a three-year deal for Rather to develop and host a weekly documentary series for Cuban's HDNet. In an interview with today's (Tuesday) Philadelphia Inquirer, Rather appeared to praise Cuban and take a swipe at his former employers at CBS in a single swoop. "Hard news needs backers that don't back down," Rather told the Inquirer. "It needs owners and operators who understand what news is and isn't, and back up their people and back them all the way." For his part, Cuban said that he regards Rather as "a pioneer and a maverick, small M. From infancy, we Texans are taught to have a special place for pioneers and mavericks." He was critical of CBS's treatment of the former anchor over the "Memogate" scandal. "You don't take somebody who's done what he's done and basically make him a scapegoat. It's not right. Particularly over one incident." Further details about Rather's program are expected to be announced later today at the TV critics tour in Pasadena.

http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2006-07-11/

[mtnester]

1. My hubby said if the show is remotely successful at all

whenever the renegotiations are up for the contract with the satellite networks, it will show up on cable PDQ (I hope)

[partylessinOhio]

2. I certainly won't be watching Katie Whoric. News is not entertainment.

News needs to be told by one person not a party around a desk with chit chat, back pats and hee haws.

Rather was just a victim of *. How very Fristian of him.