Some very smart people are giving advice on the next steps to bring down Dan Rather and CBS. (See Jim Geraughty and Hugh Hewitt.) Hugh even calls for a Congressional review.
There is a different way...
Leave them in place. Think this through, guys and gals. If the Recall Dan movement is successful, CBS will takes its licks for sure, but soon the parties will be shuffled along and Leslie Stahl (say) becomes the new face of CBS. New face, fresh new start.
But what if Dan stays? With Dan in place, CBS will NEVER be taken for a serious news organization again. Dan lingers on - retirement postponed to allow him to recover face - meanwhile the most severely partisan of the major networks is hobbled for the foreseeable future.
So...fresh start or severely hobbled. Which do you prefer?
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