Older and Wiser: At 86, Dan Rather is making a name for himself on Facebook

Halfway through his ninth decade, Dan Rather is years past the time when he and TV networks ruled how Americans thought about the world around them. Yet now 86, Rather has not faded away. In fact, he has found a niche in the new world of social media, with nearly 2.5 million followers on Facebook. This "renaissance," as Rather put it, is particularly gratifying to the former "face of the network" after his 44-year career at CBS ended under a cloud because of a flawed "60 Minutes" report about then-President George W. Bush's military service during the Vietnam War.