Dissed and dumped on by CBS, Dan Rather still an American favorite

[DeepModem Mom]

Media Life: Dan Rather, still an American favorite
Though dissed and dumped on by CBS
By Toni Fitzgerald
Aug 10, 2006


(Media Life)
Dan Rather

....Rather remains a favorite among the American public. A new poll from Gallup Panel finds that the new HDNet anchor ranks No. 2 among all news personalities in likeability, behind only ABC’s affable Diane Sawyer.

Seventy percent of respondents said they had a favorable impression of Rather, compared with 80 percent for Sawyer.

That was much higher than the current lot of nightly news anchors, all of whom received favorable ratings of 55 percent or under: ABC’s Charles Gibson, 55 percent; CBS’s Bob Schieffer, 50 percent; and NBC’s Brian Williams, 47 percent.

Rather’s favorable rating was even higher than incoming CBS news anchor Katie Couric, the popular former “Today” co-host who takes over in September. She rated 60 percent....

http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman/publish/article_6555.asp

[Benhurst]

1. So much for the "liberal" media. As in the case of MSNBC (GE)

when it let it's highest-rated broadcaster Phil Donahue go, CBS put its right-wing politics over potential profits to fire Rather.

Katie Couric is going to put CBS News in the toilet, where it deserves to be.

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