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He's not retiring. He's moving to 60 Minutes as a contributor of "special investigative reports." There he will join the ranks of such other beloved CBS lions of journalistic truth-seeking as Morley Safer, Ed Bradley and Leslie Stahl. Clearly his brave defense of spurious stories has done the network proud. Besides, the shock of sudden withdrawal from his affectionately slurred diction, engagingly inane platitudes and endearingly inaccurate standards would obviously too much for us to bear.