"Sunday’s Los Angeles Times had an update on Dan Rather’s continuing lawsuit against CBS News over what Dan might call the “forged-memos-to-torpedo-Bush’s-re-election-in-2004 scandal.” Rather scalded CBS with language he used to save exclusively for conservatives: “Their strategy is to string it out, wear me out, suck the will from me, and make it so painful on the pocketbook that I want to give up....But I don't think anybody who knows me would say that there's any give-up in me.”

But media writer Matea Gold said CBS had also “made available several executives who spoke acidly about the anchor whose work they once touted.” 60 Minutes executive producer Jeff Fager trashed Rather’s work as deficient: “I hate to say it in public, but many of [his] stories were not even close to the standards we expect at 60 Minutes.”"