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Saturday, 22 September 2007 |
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Dan Rather : 'Somebody's got to take a stand and say democracy cannot survive... with government interference in news'
'Former CBS anchor Dan Rather recently filed a $70 million lawsuit against CBS, saying they made him a "scapegoat" when he was fired for a September 2004 story on 60 Minutes about President Bush's unsatisfactory service in the Texas Air National Guard ...
.. he added, "Somebody, sometime has got to take a stand and say democracy cannot survive, much less thrive with the level of big corporate and big government interference and intimidation in news".'
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