Dan Rather
Dan Rather
Daniel Irvin "Dan" Rather, Jr.is an American journalist and the former news anchor for the CBS Evening News. He is now managing editor and anchor of the television news magazine Dan Rather Reports on the cable channel AXS TV. Rather was anchor of the CBS Evening News for 24 years, from March 9, 1981, to March 9, 2005. He also contributed to CBS's 60 Minutes. Rather became embroiled in controversy about a disputed news report involving President George W. Bush's...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNews Anchor
Date of Birth31 October 1931
CityWharton, TX
CountryUnited States of America
Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.
This was great reporting. I think the public should know that great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts. And the role of the late Katherine Graham, who owned The Washington Post, is not to be underestimated.
The public has lost interest. They'd much rather hear about the Robert Blake murder case or what is happening on Wall Street. A feeling is creeping back in that if you lead foreign, you die.
What I hope will not change is the understanding that news needs to serve the public interest as its primary goal. That is its greatest calling, to keep freedom and independence alive, and keep it honest.
International coverage will continue to shrink unless those of us who believe it's important can make the case to the leadership and ownership that this is a public service. It may not help the demographics, it may not help the ratings. But it's the kind of coverage you have to have if you want to be a quality operation.
The reporting for Katrina has been fabulous, among the best I have seen, right across the board, ... Television is at its best when it commits itself to public service and this was a classic, almost pluperfect, example of television news as a public service.
There certainly were days when I felt I was rode hard and put to bed wet.
We saw a lot of these in the early '90s. These are the type of weapons that have been missing for the last five to seven years. But we are starting to see them again.
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.
To the pilot of a deep sea submersible, upon finding out what would happen if the craft sprung a leak while submerged. I'll trust you to make sure that doesn't happen.
Tonight, savagery in the streets of Iraq. Ten Americans die in a single day, four of them civilians murdered, mutilated and dragged through the streets....What drives American civilians to risk death in Iraq? In this economy it may be, for some, the only job they can find.
My cousin just died. He was only 19. He got stung by a bee - the natural enemy of a tightrope walker.
It's the old shell game.