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
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.
Texas: 32 electoral votes, another of the so-called big enchiladas or if not an enchilada at least a huge taco.
In dealing with the press, do yourself a favor, stick with one of three responses: (a) I know and I can tell you; (b) I know and I can't tell you; (c) I don't know.
By more than two to one Americans do not consider what Kevorkian did, injecting a terminally ill patient with legal drugs at the patient's request, to be the same as murder. You may want to note that laws are not supposed to be enforced on the basis of public opinion polls.
I know that this story is true.
Editing can alter the original meaning and context, and computers can alter the image itself. The camera can also be manipulated. At the very least, it must be turned in one direction - only one direction at a time ... Who chooses what direction to point the camera, and why?
On Capitol Hill, the Republican-controlled House voted mostly along party lines tonight to pass President Bush's federal budget blueprint. This includes his big tax cut plan, partly bankrolled, critics say, through cuts in many federal aid programs for children and education.
When the going gets weird, anchormen punt.
It's the American way: if you don't vote, you don't get to whine.
These guys [the Catholic church] make Enron look like altar boys.
I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.
Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.
Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
And now the sequence of events in no particular order.