Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather, who was fired in 2006 for peddling fake documents about then-President George W. Bush, on Thursday condemned the network’s hiring of Free Press founder Bari Weiss and its parent company Paramount’s merger with Skydance. Paramount’s decision to appoint Weiss as CBS editor in chief, and to merge with Skydance, marks "a dark day in the halls of CBS News, where the portraits of television news pioneers once hung," Rather wrote on his Substack. The former CBS