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Tom Shales: Dan Rather was and remains a living news biz legend

That Dan Rather's last weeks and days at CBS should be marked by turbulence seems somehow appropriate for him, "although through the years he has been among the most ferociously loyal of company men where CBS News was concerned," says Tom Shales. "Rather's in-house enemies were up in the corporate stratosphere, not down in the trenches with the hard-working journalists."

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