The Ticker: Rather, Russert, Cooper…

> Salon‘s Sidney Blumenthal has a 3,500-word piece on the Dan Rather suit against CBS & Viacom. The summation: Rather “is not going gentle into that good night.”

> FishbowlDC says NBC’s DC boss skipped a radio appearance this morning, to see The Boss live on the Rockefeller Plaza.

> CNN is going all out to promote the upcoming Planet in Peril series. Anderson Cooper is going to do one-minute daily radio reports for CNN Radio affiliates. Planet in Peril is a four-hour documentary “about issues threatening the planet and its inhabitants.”

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