Dan Rather might announce his departure from CBS on Tuesday,
Forbes reports, as rumors swirl through West 57th Street that an announcement is imminent. Supposedly, the honchos at CBS News want
him out before Katie Couric takes the seat he once had--a chair held before him by Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow. While Rather's contract does not officially expire until November, the network
has been negotiating an earlier exit,
Forbes claims. Rather joined CBS in 1962 and was anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News" for 24 years. He was forced out of that post after a
story on George W. Bush's Vietnam-era stint in the National Guard. Documents--though not the basic facts--used in the piece were later found to have been falsified. Rather has since remained with the
Tiffany Network as a correspondent for "60 Minutes," and is supposedly mulling an offer from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban to host and produce a weekly news show on Cuban's HDNet cable TV channel.
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