Dan Rather goes out firing today in the Boston Globe:

Asked why he has long been target of conservative critics complaining about a liberal bias in the media, Rather says: ”I am independent and fiercely independent. It’s the role of movements and partisan political organizations to apply the pressure and to try and intimidate. It is the job of the journalist in a free society to say ‘no.’ . . . I haven’t stopped trying.”
Rather’s big concern? ”That the American press as a whole will succumb to the undertow to be more docile, in some cases obsequious . . . to move in the middle, settle for mediocrity — one, in exchange for access, and two, out of fear that you’d be called a bad name, unpatriotic, or radical right or liberal. What I’m talking about here is the increasing danger of being intimidated.”