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	Dan Rather - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rather was anchor of the CBS Evening News for 24 years, from March 9, 1981 to March 9, 2005.
		Rather's career is remarkable for it's rollercoaster of highs and lows in the 80's and 90's in popularity with viewers and later in 2004 a controversial and questionable documentary report about President George W. Bush's military service, which allegedly led to his ouster.
		Rather was born in Wharton, Texas, the son of Daniel Irvin Rather Sr.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dan_Rather (5200 words)

	Rather, Dan
		Rather's hard-hitting journalistic style has sometimes been as much discussed as the content of his reporting, particularly in the case of well-publicized contretemps with Richard Nixon and George Bush.
		For one week in September 1986 Rather concluded his nightly broadcast with the solemn, ominous-sounding, single-word sign-off "Courage." The line, seen as an attempt to respond to or replace audience familiarity with Cronkite's "And that's the way it is," attracted widespread media coverage and not a little satire.
		Rather's career reflects the passing of the era in which Walter Cronkite was unproblematically "the most trusted man in America" with little or no close competition.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/R/htmlR/ratherdan/ratherdan.htm (895 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| Dan Rather's tears
		Rather knows what his role is, and his determination to fit into that role, rigidly and stalwartly, is what made his apology -- an apology he repeated during the course of the appearance -- so wrenching.
		Rather's two moments of spontaneous, bone-rattling despair on Letterman weren't signs of weakness, cracks in judgment or evidence of an inability to be impartial.
		Rather maintained his evenness until he told Letterman that a song Americans have sung since they were school kids, "America the Beautiful," will never sound quite the same to him: "Oh beautiful for patriot's dream/That echoes through the years/Thine alabaster cities gleam/Undimmed by human tears." His voice broke as he got to that last line.
	www.salon.com /ent/tv/feature/2001/09/18/rather/index.html (959 words)

	Dan Rather — Infoplease.com
		Dan Rather, 2001 People in the News - Dan Rather, CBS Evening News anchor, made headlines over the summer for refusing to report the...
		Dan Rather, 2005 People in the News - Dan Rather, broadcast journalist, signed off as anchor of CBS News in March, a year earlier than he...
		Dan Rather, 2004 People in the News - Dan Rather, journalist, found himself at the center of a media storm in September, when he and his...
	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0762055.html (347 words)

	CNN.com - Dan Rather to leave anchor desk in March - Nov 23, 2004
		Early in the controversy, Rather and CBS News had insisted that the documents came from a "solid" source, that their contents were backed up by other reporting and that the memos had been authenticated by document experts.
		However, Rather conceded that CBS had only obtained photocopies of the documents, not the originals, which experts said would shed light on their authenticity.
		Rather, a Texas-born journalist, first joined CBS in 1962 as the chief of its Southwest bureau in Dallas, Texas, from which he reported details of President Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963.
	www.cnn.com /2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/23/rather/index.html (965 words)

	Dan Rather goes bananas. - By Bryan Curtis - Slate Magazine
		Rather is paid an outsized salary—he makes $7 million per year—that is in no way commensurate with the number of viewers he delivers.
		Dan Rather's problem is not that he is a huge psycho but that he is a huge ego.
		dan rather has worked hard to get where he is. he's interviewed presidents, prime ministers, kings, even saddam.
	www.slate.com /id/2107006 (1597 words)

	FOXNews.com - Dan Rather to Step Down as CBS Anchor - Celebrity Gossip \| Entertainment News \| Arts And Entertainment
		Rather made no mention of the National Guard story in announcing the change, saying he had agreed with CBS executives last summer that the right time to leave would be after the Nov. 2 election.
		Rather, whose Texas roots were evident in his folksy aphorisms, joined CBS News in 1962 and covered President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas a year later.
		Rather also said he was once accosted on a New York street by a strange man who beat him, asking, "Kenneth, what is the frequency." It became an odd cultural touchstone; the rock band R.E.M. wrote a song about it.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,139391,00.html (1801 words)

	The Black Commentator - The Lynching of Dan Rather - Issue 106
		In June 2002, Dan Rather looked old, defeated, making a confession he dare not speak on American TV about the deadly censorship — and self-censorship — which had seized US newsrooms.
		Dan's words had a poignant personal ring for me. He was speaking on Newsnight, BBC's nightly current affairs program, which broadcasts my own reports.
		Indeed, Dan is in hot water for a report my own investigative team put in Britain's Guardian papers and on BBC TV years ago.
	blackcommentator.com /106/106_rather.html (867 words)

	Dan Rather's retirement opens a new era of TV journalism. - By Dana Stevens - Slate Magazine
		With Rather's retirement from the nightly news, the news anchor may have been replaced by a new paradigm of TV journalism—and that's not necessarily a bad thing.
		Ironically, the very qualities that have made Rather a target for ridicule over the years—his sentimental patriotism, his barely veiled partiality, his odd combination of vulnerability and hubris—are those that most resemble the new breed of "personality journalists" that are siphoning viewers away from broadcast news and toward the cable-news talk shows.
		Rather was never fully contained by his role as a newscaster.
	www.slate.com /id/2110113 (775 words)

	Biography: Dan Rather
		Dan Rather was born in Wharton, Texas, on 31st October, 1931.
		Rather created a great deal of controversy when he said on BBC Newsnight (16th May, 2002): "It is an obscene comparison - you know, I am not sure I like it - but you know there was a time in South Africa that people would put flaming tires around people's necks if they dissented.
		Dan Rather: Ruby operated a pair of sleazy nightclubs, The Carousel and The Vegas.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKrather.htm (1107 words)

	Killian documents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In an interview with Dan Rather, Burkett admitted that he misled CBS about the source of the documents, and then claimed that the documents came to him from "Lucy Ramirez", whom CBS was unable to contact or identify as an actual person.
		Some critics of CBS and Dan Rather argued that by proceeding with the story when the documents had not been authenticated, CBS was exhibiting liberal bias and attempting to influence the outcome of the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election.
		Dan Rather continues to stand by the story, and in subsequent interviews has articulated that he believes that the documents have never conclusively been proven to be forgeries — and that even if the documents are false, that the underlying story is true.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rathergate (6131 words)

	Dan Rather to Step Down at CBS (washingtonpost.com)
		Dan Rather said yesterday that he will end his nearly 24-year reign as CBS News anchor early next year, setting the terms of his departure instead of waiting for an investigative report on his rushed and admittedly flawed story on President Bush's National Guard service.
		Rather told a cheering newsroom staff meeting in New York, where several people choked up, that discussions about his eventual transition were put on hold when "the hippopotamus entered the room," a reference to the National Guard controversy.
		Rather said he did not want to wait until next week to announce his decision because NBC's Tom Brokaw is stepping down as anchor in favor of Brian Williams.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A7313-2004Nov23.html (639 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Dan Rather to step down (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dan Rather, the CBS news anchor who made headlines this fall after using bogus documents to question President Bush's National Guard service, announced today he will leave his position with the network in March.
		After Rather initially released the documents, purported to be created in the early '70s, blog users and others quickly discredited them based on characteristics of the font used and other factors.
		Rather worked for CBS for over 40 years, covered the Nixon administration for the network and served as the longest-running major network news anchor on television.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41608 (640 words)

	CNN.com - Dan Rather signs off - Mar 9, 2005
		Rather was more intense, more edgy, and sometimes seemed to be uncomfortable as an anchor.
		The report was based on a memo that was discredited, and when Rather announced plans to step down, it wasn't just Republicans who said he was leaving under a cloud.
		Rather tells The Washington Post his critics are entitled to their opinions.
	www.cnn.com /2005/US/03/09/dan.rather (521 words)

	The Dan Rather File: 25 Years of Liberal Media Bias -- Media Research Center
		Dan Rather ascended to the CBS Evening News anchor chair on March 9, 1981.
		Dan has led a generation of great reporters to the top of America's most-admired professions -- at least in the '70s.
		Dan Rather: "One supporting pillar of the story, albeit an important one, one supporting pillar was brought into question.
	www.mrc.org /Profiles/rather/rather.asp (825 words)

	Dan Rather signs off with ‘courage’ - Television - MSNBC.com
		Dan Rather has been the face of CBS News since 1981.
		Rather’s reporting career spanned the Kennedy assassination to this winter’s tsunami, and he’s been the public face of CBS’s legendary news division since replacing Walter Cronkite on March 9, 1981.
		Rather took much of the public blame for a discredited “60 Minutes” story last fall about President Bush’s military service, and he’s a distant third in the ratings behind NBC’s Brian Williams and Jennings.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7137959 (787 words)

	New York Daily News - Home - Bill O'Reilly: Dan got smeared (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It may be true that Rather did not vet the information supplied to him by producers, but few anchor people do.
		Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.
		I believe Rather, along with Andy Rooney, Walter Cronkite and other guardsmen of the old CBS News, is liberal in his thinking.
	www.nydailynews.com /front/story/257225p-220135c.html (680 words)

	Anne Morse on Rathergate & Vietnam on National Review Online
		Rather then moved on to suicidal veteran named George Grule, who was stationed on the aircraft carrier Ticonderoga off the coast of Vietnam during a secret mission.
		Most horrific of all were the memories of Terry Bradley, a "fighting sergeant" who told Rather he had skinned alive 50 Vietnamese men, women, and children in one hour and stacked their bodies in piles.
		During a 1993 speech to the Radio and Television News Directors Association, Rather criticized his colleagues for competing with entertainment shows for "dead bodies, mayhem, and lurid tales." "We should all be ashamed of what we have and have not done, measured against what we could do," Rather said.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/morse200409150552.asp (1451 words)

	Dan Rather \| The News is NowPublic.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rather recieves a gift from The Salisbury Forum to remember his trip to Salisbury.
		Not only was Dan Rather's Report on Bush'...
		Yet, all the poor man did was repeat a story we put on BBC Television a year earlier — that Poppy Bush put in the fix to get his son out of ‘Nam and into the Texas...
	www.nowpublic.com /dan_rather (99 words)

	Dan Rather \| NewsBusters.org
		Former CBS anchorman Dan Rather was Howard Kurtz’s guest on Sunday’s “Reliable Sources,” and the interview went in a lot of fascinating directions.
		Rather not only defended the report, but the validity of the forged documentation that the report relied on, saying it had never been proven false (despite copious evidence to the contrary).
		Dan Rather, who may have been out to rain on Katie Couric's parade, promote his return to TV news, or both, talked at length the other day to Rebecca Dana of the New York Observer, and the result is in the Observer's new issue.
	newsbusters.org /taxonomy/term/191 (4504 words)

	Dan Rather: a pioneer and a lightning rod \| csmonitor.com
		Rather, and highlight the other charge that has dogged his career: accusations of liberal bias.
		Rather was also the quintessential competitor, which didn't go unnoticed in other broadcast shops.
		Rather never lost his drive nor his feistiness once he moved into the anchor's chair.
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/0309/p03s01-ussc.html (1156 words)

	NPR : Rather Anchors Final 'Evening News'
		Rather, shown here in 2003, will not be leaving CBS entirely: he will join the staff of the newsmagazine 60 Minutes Wednesday.
		Rather, 73, has covered almost every major news story of the last four decades, but a botched report on President Bush's military service record cast a shadow on the last months of his tenure.
		Rather got his start in the 1950s as a wire service and radio reporter in Huntsville, Texas.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4528608 (205 words)

	USATODAY.com - Dan Rather says 24 years have been 'a privilege' never taken lightly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Afterward, Rather, 73, accepted a 10-minute standing ovation in the studio from dozens of staffers, his wife Jean, daughter Robin and son Danjack.
		Throughout the day, television news profiled Rather's tenure in the anchor chair, including famous run-ins with President Nixon and the first President Bush and the controversial story that cut short his tenure as anchor by a year: last fall's 60 Minutes story, which questioned the current President Bush's military career.
		The same poll found that 23% described Rather as "very believable," compared with 31% for Jennings and 21% for Williams.
	www.usatoday.com /life/television/news/2005-03-08-rather_x.htm (479 words)

	CBC.ca Arts - Last day at the desk for Dan Rather
		Exactly 24 years after taking over from Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather is preparing to deliver his final broadcast from the "fishbowl" studio of the CBS Evening News.
		Rather's lengthy career has encompassed everything from covering the assassination of John F. Kennedy to interviewing Saddam Hussein after the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
		Rather was forced to issue an on-air apology for the use of questionable documents.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2005/03/08/ratherdeparture050308.html (1558 words)

	Rather Concedes Papers Are Suspect (washingtonpost.com)
		Rather spoke after interviewing the secretary to Bush's former squadron commander, who told him that the memos attributed to her late boss are fake -- but that they reflect the commander's belief that Bush was receiving preferential treatment to escape some of his Guard commitments.
		In her interview with Rather yesterday, Knox repeated her contention that the documents used by "60 Minutes" were bogus.
		Rather said he was "relieved and pleased" by Knox's comments that the disputed memos reflected Killian's view of the favorable treatment that Bush received in the military unit.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A24633-2004Sep15.html (881 words)

	Dan Rather's Liberal Bias - Media Research Center
		March 2005: After the embarrassing scandal involving Dan Rather’s use of forged documents in a one-sided 60 Minutes hit piece aimed at President Bush just before the 2004 presidential election, CBS announced Rather would leave the CBS Evening News on March 9, 2005, a year earlier than planned.
		Rather failed to report that the poll he cited showed twice as many said tax cuts would help the economy (41 percent) than said new tax cuts would hurt (19 percent).
		Dan Rather has denied having a liberal bias almost as long as he's been a news anchor.
	www.mediaresearch.org /projects/rather20th/welcome.asp (6417 words)

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