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Curtis
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 Tue Nov 23, 2004 1:56 pm Dan Rather Stepping Down |
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| Quote: | (CBS) Dan Rather announced Tuesday that he will step down as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News in March, 24 years after his first broadcast in that position.
Rather will continue to work full-time at CBS News as a correspondent for both editions of 60 Minutes, as well as on other assignments for the news division. His last broadcast as anchor will be March 9, the 24th anniversary of when he assumed the position from Walter Cronkite.
CBS made no mention of a potential successor.
Rather, 73, has come under fire for his 60 Minutes report on President Bush's service in the National Guard during the Vietnam War. The report relied on documents that cast Mr. Bush's service in a negative light. Critics charged that the documents were forgeries, and CBS News was unable to vouch for their authenticity. An independent commission is now investigating the matter.
"I have been lucky and blessed over these years to have what is, to me, the best job in the world and to have it at CBS News. Along the way, I've had the honor of working with some of the most talented, dedicated professionals in the world, and I'm appreciative of the opportunity to continue doing so in the years ahead," Rather said in a statement.
"Dan�s dedication to his craft and his remarkable skills as a reporter are legendary," said CBS News President Andrew Heyward. "He has symbolized the CBS Evening News for nearly a quarter century."
Rather has worked at CBS News for more than 40 years and made his name as a reporter covering the Nixon White House. His nearly quarter-century at the helm of the CBS Evening News is the longest at the helm of any U.S. network evening broadcast.
Rather's announcement comes eight days before his NBC rival, Tom Brokaw, steps down as Nightly News anchor and is replaced by Brian Williams.
The triumvirate of Rather, Brokaw and ABC's Peter Jennings has ruled network news for more than two decades. Rather dominated ratings after taking over for Cronkite during the 1980s, but he was eclipsed first by Jennings and then by Brokaw. His evening news broadcast generally runs a distant third in the ratings each week.
His hard news style was mixed with a folksy Texan style that led him to rattle off homespun phrases on Election Night. But odd incidents dogged him: In 1987 he walked off the set, leaving CBS with dead air, to protest a decision to let a tennis match delay the news.
Rather began his career in journalism in 1950 as an Associated Press reporter in Huntsville, Texas. Rather joined CBS News in 1962 as chief of its Southwest bureau in Dallas. In 1963, he was appointed chief of the Southern bureau in New Orleans.
During that time, he reported on racial conflicts in the South and the crusade of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as well as the death of President Kennedy.
He took the anchor chair in 1981, and has reported on every major news story since then.
In February 2003, Rather secured the most sought-after interview in the world: an exclusive one-on-one with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, the first the Iraqi leader has conducted with an American journalist since 1991.
Rather also reported from Kabul on the United States� effort to oust the Taliban and from Jerusalem and the West Bank during the largest Israeli military action in two decades.
He gained special notice for his live anchoring of CBS News� coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks and his around-the-clock reporting in the days that followed. In the weeks after 9/11, Rather filed reports from Ground Zero and on the attacks� aftermath in New York and the nation for the prime time news magazine 48 Hours.
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In my opinion, it's about time. Yeah, Dan did a great job and all but I kind of got sick of seeing his face almost everywhere CBS related on television and elsewhere. But great work from all the accumulated years Dan and adious, good luck with your new CBS work (Strange that he'll still remain working full-time with CBS)
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| Tue Nov 23, 2004 3:21 pm |
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This is rather sad (  ). But really, I think he did a good job during his time as anchor.
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| Tue Nov 23, 2004 4:10 pm |
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Yes, Dan Rather is a very good news reporter. And I dont wanna hear all you repubs saying he stepped down because of the investigation on his anti-bush report. Yah, thats about all ive got.
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Curtis
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| Tue Nov 23, 2004 8:14 pm |
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| Defiant wrote: | | Yes, Dan Rather is a very good news reporter. And I dont wanna hear all you repubs saying he stepped down because of the investigation on his anti-bush report. Yah, thats about all ive got. |
I never said it was.
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| Sat Nov 27, 2004 10:04 pm |
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Yes, it's about time. Yes, he's a fine anchor. But is it good that he's gone? OF COURSE.
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| Sat Nov 27, 2004 10:30 pm |
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Good riddance.
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| Sat Nov 27, 2004 10:57 pm |
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Despite his clear liberal bias, I never liked him to begin with, trying to act like a good old country boy using all these retarded terms like...(here is the whole list, and yes, they are all factual, and from election night):
| Quote: | Do you hear that knocking...President Bush's re-election is at the door."
"This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex."
"His lead is as thin as turnip soup."
"This race is humming along like Ray Charles."
"The presidential race is swinging like Count Basie."
"This race is hotter than the Devil's anvil."
"Ohio becomes like a sauna for the two candidates. All they can do is wait and sweat."
"One's reminded of that old saying, 'Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.'"
"This situation in Ohio would give an aspirin a headache.''
"Bush is sweeping through the South like a big wheel through a cotton field."
"What Kerry needs at this point is the equivalent of Tom Brady coming off the bench to rescue him. But it's still too close to call."
"No question now that Kerry's rapidly reaching the point where he's got his back to the wall, his shirttails on fire and the bill collector's at the door."
"John Kerry needs something on the order of a 55 or 60-yard field goal to win this."
(To Joe Lockhart) "I know that you'd rather walk through a furnace in a gasoline suit than consider the possibility that John Kerry would lose Ohio."
(To Joe Lockhart) "What about Michigan? It's been out there for a long time. Is that making your fingernails sweat?"
"This presidential race has been crackling like a hickory fire for at least the last hour and a half."
"Let's see where it goes from here. Round and round it goes, where it stops nobody knows."
"We keep talking about Ohio if you've been tuning in and out or you put the baby to bed or you went to pop the cap on an adult, or otherwise, beverage..."
"We used to say if a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun."
"No one is saying that George Bush is not going to win the election, and if you had to bet the double-wide, you'd have to bet that he'd win."
"In southern states they beat him like a rented mule."
"If you try to read the tea leaves before the cup is done you can get yourself burned."
"We need Billy Crystal to Analyze This"
"You know that old song, 'it's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely' for President Bush in most areas of the country."
"We had a slight hitch in our giddy up, but we corrected that."
"In some ways, George Bush's lead is as thin as November ice."
"Put on a cup of coffee, this race isn't going to be over for a while."
"You look at the map and say it's all a big Bush victory. But this is one time when your Mother is right, looks can be deceiving."
"John Kerry's moon has just moved behind a cloud, as far as Florida is concerned."
On Kerry's chances: "To use a metaphor, he's gotta draw to an inside straight. But hey, sometimes you get lucky and hit that straight."
"Is it like a swan, with every feather above the water settled, but under the water paddling like crazy?"
"What you have here is the football equivalent of a fourth quarter rally by Kerry."
The election is "closer than Lassie and Timmy"
"Keep in mind they are teetotally meetmortally convinced they have Ohio won."
"Vice President Dick Cheney would not have flown all the way out there (Hawaii) overnight and put that lei around his neck and sort of hula-danced, if you will, unless he thought there was a chance of carrying that out there."
"President Bush smiling there with his family. He's laid down aces so far."
"You can almost hear the GOP (deep breathing sound). We're getting within maybe smelling distance."
"We don't know what to do. We don't know whether to wind a watch or bark at the moon."
On how the results are affecting strategists: "It's one reason so many of them drink a lot."
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), on being congratulated on victory by Rather: "Thanks Dan, I always believe you." Rather: "Now, ladies and gentleman, if you believe that, you'll believe rocks can grow." |
And yall thought Bush was a red-neck/hick
Gosh he drones on forever. Thank goodness no one has to put up with him anymore.
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Curtis
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| Sun Nov 28, 2004 1:34 pm |
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Well, if ya put it that way...I guess it's a good thing he is stepping down.
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| Tue Nov 30, 2004 9:10 am |
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I am glad that he stepped down. I never liked him. He was rather boring to listen in my opinion.
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| Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:58 am |
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I wasn't too upset by this, even though CBS is generally the station we watch for news. (That channel came in the best,  )
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| Tue Nov 30, 2004 12:39 pm |
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everyone needs to step down at some time or another... he's been around for a long time!
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Curtis
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| Tue Nov 30, 2004 6:34 pm |
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| B'Elanna Torres 7 of 9 wrote: | | everyone needs to step down at some time or another... he's been around for a long time! |
Yeah, and it looks like his time was now  (Hey, we watch CBS too T...Mom prefers that weather the best lol).
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| Tue Nov 30, 2004 6:57 pm |
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| B'Elanna Torres 7 of 9 wrote: | | everyone needs to step down at some time or another... he's been around for a long time! |
Yeah. And it's been longer than Kronkite was.
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