You Tube has the gem below of CBS anchor Katie Couric making fun of a video on You Tube that showed Dan Rather fussing with his overcoat. Couric & Co seem to be having fun and in great spirits (and she’s as likeable on the video as on camera):
And here’s the (in)famous Rather video:
When you watch this, you now realize what it meant that Rather was the (micro) Managing Editor of his newscast…
See our related post on Bob Schieffer HERE.
UPDATE: In the interest of total accuracy, the Dan Rather video above that is offered on You Tube was not created by You Tube but by comedian Harry Shearer for My Damn Channel.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.