60 Minutes Chief: Dan Rather’s Work ‘Not Even Close to the Standards We Expect’

Sunday’s Los Angeles Times had an update on Dan Rather’s continuing lawsuit against CBS News over what Dan might call the

“forged-memos-to-torpedo-Bush’s-re-election-in-2004 scandal.”

60 Minutes executive producer Jeff Fager described Rather’s work as deficient:

“I hate to say it in public, but many of [his] stories were not even close to the standards we expect at 60 Minutes.”

Gold also said that Rather’s pursuit of CBS has brought to light the fact that the ex-Evening News anchor was turned down for jobs at: ABC, NBC, CNN, A&E, History, HBO, Discovery and National Geographic.

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