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Dan Rather: I Didn't Plan Couric Attack
Former CBS anchor Dan Rather said he didn’t plan an attack on Katie Couric when he said CBS was trying to attract younger viewers to her "CBS Evening News” by "dumbing it down, tarting it up.” On Monday, Rather referred to Couric as a "nice person” but said the network made a mistake in trying to "bring the ‘Today’ show ethos to the ‘Evening News,’” and focusing on celebrities rather than hard news. CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves shot back that Rather’s remarks about Couric were "sexist.” On Wednesday, Rather told Tom Shales of the Washington Post that he commented on Couric only because Joe Scarborough of MSNBC asked about her and the "Evening News” during a radio interview. "He asked me directly what I thought,” Rather said. "It is my wont to answer a question directly. It was not planned.”
Story Continues Below Rather also told Fox News he was not attacking Couric personally: "It’s not about gender . . . That is not what I was talking about.” In his interview with Shales, Rather said his criticisms extend beyond how Couric’s struggling newscast fares. "I was trying to make a larger point about dangerous trends I see in broadcast news and I just happened to be asked about the ‘CBS Evening News’ by Scarborough,” he said.
"We have enormous life-or-death issues and challenges facing us in this country and the world today … And yet, for some reason, Paris Hilton is the big story on newscast after newscast… "The corporate leadership of CBS doesn’t even know what hard news is supposed to be.”
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