Today's NY Times carried a scathing article on Dan Rather. Some of the issues raised are:

1. There is a traditional rivalry/enmity between print and TV journalism. (This may account, in part, for the scathing nature of the article.)

2. Dan Rather liked to think of himself as a reporter rather than a news anchor. He believed that he could do more than read the news.

3. Rather tried to be the news, not just write it.

4. Walter Cronkite said that CBS should have chosen Bob Schieffer, not Dan Rather, to succeed him.