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He's very critical of what came after him at CBS.(QuickQuotes)(anchor Dan Rather)(Brief article)

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"I have nothing against Katie Couric. The mistake [at CBS] was to try to bring the Today Show ethos to the evening news and to dumb it down, tart it up in hopes of attracting a younger audience."

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