A number of reporters have remarked on what one called a “mini-meltdown” that Dan Rather appeared to experience on a special two-hour edition of 60 Minutes Sunday night after Ed Bradley insisted on putting an additional question to a guest just as Rather began to wrap up the interview.
In email messages to Jim Romenesko’s MediaNews letters column on the Poynter Institute’s Web site, the reporters suggested that Rather first looked exasperated, then downcast by Bradley‘s pushiness. One reporter remarked, “It’s not everyday you see the ‘reporter’ (Mr. Bradley) tell the ‘anchor’ (Mr. Rather) to ‘butt out.’ But that’s what I thought I saw.” Another reporter added that Rather looked as if “his dog was just run over or [as] if Excedrin headache #12 was about to hit.”
