Dan Rather's exit: the contrarian view

Variety's Brian Lowry offers a much-needed contrarian perspective on the departure of Dan Rather from CBS News, and the larger lesson to be had:

We lament when elder statesmen like Dan Rather are ushered out of a place like CBS News, yet largely ignore such veterans and praise them too little while panting after Anderson Cooper, Katie Couric or the next "It" guy or gal. Fixtures like Rather and Mike Wallace suddenly become newsworthy only when somebody prods them toward retirement, at which point we magically rediscover them, even when they're several years past the age at which most of us would welcome lying on a beach somewhere.

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