Rather’s goodbye video.
CBS News transcript.

NBC’s Brian Williams tribute.
ABC’s Peter Jennings tribute.

Courage.

My take? He wasn’t as classy as Brokaw, but…Dan didn’t do a bad job. I expected him to talk more about how he spent years being the consummate reporter, blah blah blah. No, he spent most of his time saluting others, and I think that’s OK. It doesn’t mean I give him a pass for any bias he’s shown in the past. It just means that he went out in a decent way. Now, he should do the right thing and disappear.