Dan Rather 'at Peace' With Not Being Included in CBS' JFK Coverage [View all]
The veteran anchor, presiding over his own special on AXS TV, reiterated that his former employer is "trying to airbrush me out of their history."
Dan Rather says he's now fine with not appearing on CBS for their 50th-anniversary coverage of President John F. Kennedy's assassination.
"Look, I’m at peace -- I have my own work and I know what my record is," the anchor said during a call with reporters to discuss his own special, My Days In Dallas: A Remembrance with Dan Rather. The three-part AXS TV program, roughly 50 minutes in total, retraces the context and events of Nov. 23, 1963.
The anchor, however, still reserved sharp words for his former employer. "This follows a pattern of some years of, in effect, trying to airbrush me out of their history," he said of CBS. "That doesn’t bother me all that much, nor should it. If anybody is to care about it -- and I’m not sure anybody should -- it’s one thing for the corporation for their own purposes [to not include him in the coverage]. But as a news organization responsible for history, I think the news consumer might want to question whether you want ... corporations trying to change history for their corporate interests."
The anchor stated that he saw he wasn't included in CBS' coverage plans when a press release went out and he wasn't mentioned. He says it wasn't until after an Associated Press article ran in early November -- including a quote from Rather saying he "held off doing anything" while waiting for an invite -- that the network said it would include archive clips from the anchor.
"They put some people out forward saying ‘Oh, we’re going to run some clips of him in our coverage," Rather recalled.
Much more at: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/dan-rather-at-peace-not-656114
= new reply since forum marked as read