An odd way to go

I don't think this is how Dan Rather - or most of us, for that matter - figured his career would end:

In September 2004, however, he introduced and subsequently defended a report questioning George Bush's National Guard service during the Vietnam war. The report relied on documents that were revealed as fakes, and in its aftermath Rather stepped down as evening news anchor, taking a reporting role on the 60 Minutes programme. However he has been used only eight times in a year, and complained last week in an interview with the New York Times that he had been given nothing to do for six weeks. Relations with the network appear to have deteriorated when he was offered a contract that included an office and an assistant but no affiliation with any programme.

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Rather, who is in negotiations with the HDNet channel to front a weekly interview programme, has spent much of his recent downtime watching the film Good Night and Good Luck, George Clooney's tribute to Ed Murrow and the groundbreaking television reporting of the 50s. He is said to have seen it five times.

I thought Rather got the raw end of the deal,presenting discrediting evidence (for whatever reason - a mistake, getting duped, dirty trick, etc.) into an otherwise accurate piece of reporting.

But that last paragraph - it all sounds so sad. Rather had his many faults, but he didn't need to be humiliated like that. Yeah, I know, politics blah, blah, but it just makes me a little sad.