To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting

I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling

I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print

To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred