CBS Plans to Show Rather the Door

Dan Rather, who has sat in the CBS anchor chair for 24 years, will be gone from the network by the time Katie Couric joins this fall, according to the Washington Post. CBS executives have said that they are not trying to "boot" him because of the controversy surrounding his botched story on President Bush and the National Guard, but rather that there will be no room for him on 60 Minutes, particularly with Couric's arrival as well as that of CNN's Anderson Cooper as part-time contributor.