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From www.newsmax.com :http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/2/24/195255.shtml
Don Hewitt: I Would've Fired Dan Rather
Former "60 Minutes" executive producer Don Hewitt has said for the first time that he would have fired correspondent Dan Rather after the "Rathergate" scandal erupted over a segment of the show in late 2004.
While taking part in Court TV's "Truth in Media and Publishing" panel, 83-year-old Hewitt was asked by Time magazine managing editor Jim Kelly: "Should Dan Rather have been fired?"
Hewitt had previously stopped short of publicly calling for Rather's axing. But this time he said simply: "Yes."
He suggested that Rather was politically motivated in airing the September 2004 report about George Bush's service with the National Guard - a report that turned out to be based on forged documents.
Well now, I thought they all said - over and over, back then, that it was never politically motivated! Strange that he would change his tune now.
I figured he would go to his grave first, rather than make that admission.
Don Hewitt: I Would've Fired Dan Rather
Former "60 Minutes" executive producer Don Hewitt has said for the first time that he would have fired correspondent Dan Rather after the "Rathergate" scandal erupted over a segment of the show in late 2004.
While taking part in Court TV's "Truth in Media and Publishing" panel, 83-year-old Hewitt was asked by Time magazine managing editor Jim Kelly: "Should Dan Rather have been fired?"
Hewitt had previously stopped short of publicly calling for Rather's axing. But this time he said simply: "Yes."
He suggested that Rather was politically motivated in airing the September 2004 report about George Bush's service with the National Guard - a report that turned out to be based on forged documents.
Well now, I thought they all said - over and over, back then, that it was never politically motivated! Strange that he would change his tune now.
I figured he would go to his grave first, rather than make that admission.