Having unintentionally (and unwillingly) elevated blogging as a media form, former CBS anchorman Dan Rather made some noises recently that he may be interested in joining the new media if he leaves CBS, which he says tells employees not to blog.
Of course what I wanted to talk about is Rather becoming a blogger. He said that his employer discourages it. I was surprised, more news organizations are encouraging their reporters to blog, it makes economic sense to do so. I thought that CBS especially would be thinking this way because they were so rocked by bloggers in 2004. He said that large companies like to control what’s said about them, and that CBS is part of a large company (Viacom) [sic].
But he added something that was surprising, that I’ve not heard elsewhere — he may leave CBS, and if he does, may start blogging.
Perhaps CBS is afraid of seeing rathersrants.blogspot.com turn into the next Democratic Underground? We do know for certain that it's banned him from pursuing at least one story. (Via Instapundit.)
Meanwhile, it seems that at least one former broadcast anchor, future WH spokesman Tony Snow, gets it with regard to blogging.
