Dan Rather
Dan Rather
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#0Dan Rather
Posted: 11/23/04 at 12:21pmDrudge report is developing a story that says Dan Rather is stepping down as anchor in March '05, but will continue working with 60 Minutes II. Speculate amongst yourselves.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#1re: Dan Rather
Posted: 11/23/04 at 12:27pm
It's not called 60 Minutes II any more. It hasn't been since Don Hewitt retired.
What ever happened to that Drudge investigative report about John Kerry having that affair with the intern?
Or about the investigative report about Drudge's homosexuality and HIV positive status and how that informs his conservative politics the way both of those things inform Andrew Sullivan's?
I'm not suggesting that both of them are self-loathing and use their politics to punish themselves or anything like that. That would just be speculation. And that wouldn't be right.
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Joined: 12/31/69
#2re: Dan Rather
Posted: 11/23/04 at 12:27pm
It wouldn't surprise me after the "Dan's Rather Sorry" debacle and the fact he's been doig that job for over 20 years now.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#3re: Dan Rather
Posted: 11/23/04 at 12:32pm
It's much more the latter than the former. It's impossible to follow Walter Cronkite, but it will be easy to follow Dan Rather. If "Kenneth, What is the frequency?" didn't do him in, if the cab driver kidnap scenario didn't do him in, nothing will do him in. He'll leave when he leaves.
Brokaw's retiring too. Has Drudge "broken" that story yet?
DRUDGEFLASH: "Roseanne" cancelled!
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#4re: Dan Rather
Posted: 11/23/04 at 12:44pmNamo, it's a free country. You can have a news/gossip website too if you want one.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
grownupgroupie
Broadway Star Joined: 10/15/04
#6re: Dan Rather
Posted: 11/23/04 at 1:00pm
Well, I will miss all of his election night country-isms.
There's got to be a collection of them online somewhere.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#7re: Dan Rather
Posted: 11/23/04 at 1:01pm
I miss Walter. Is he still alive? If he is he must be 100.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#8re: Dan Rather
Posted: 11/23/04 at 5:46pm
Who cares about Rather...now THIS sucks (from Village Voice):
A few weeks ago, Bill Moyers, the venerable face of progressive current-affairs analysis on television, warned that the next four years were set to be a golden age for Watergate-style sleuth reporters. "I just think every time you wed the state and business together like this, you get corruption flowing like the Mississippi River," he announced on his PBS series, Now. Ironically, Moyers himself isn't sticking around to partake in the coming "bonanza for investigative journalism" he predicts. Although he's one of the few living media commentators whose folksy manner and heady background (he served as both a Baptist minister and a press secretary to President Lyndon Johnson) could conceivably bridge the gap between red state and blue state, secular and religious, Moyers is planning to retire from Now on December 17.
Moyers turned 70 this year and insists that he's leaving to write a book about Johnson. Still, the timing is fraught with resonance. Considering that reverberations from Rather-gate may encourage anxious self-censorship in network news shows, television needs critical voices more than ever. Now will continue into the new year with Moyers's handpicked protégé David Brancaccio, the 44-year-old former host of NPR's nouveau-business show Marketplace, taking over. But the show itself is being cut down from 60 minutes to just half an hour, and its liberal but rigorously fair coverage (which often includes interviews with conservative thinkers) is now squeezed into a Friday-night lineup that includes right-leaning programs like Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered and The Journal Editorial Report, hosted by The Wall Street Journal's Paul Gigot.
thirdrowcenter
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#9re: Dan Rather
Posted: 11/23/04 at 6:59pmRather whistles when he talks. He should be retired for that alone.
#10re: dan rather
Posted: 11/24/04 at 7:48am
wait, bill's gone? oh lordy lordy you dun heared mah prayers!
and about rather...
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Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#11re: dan rather
Posted: 11/24/04 at 9:21am
"Rather whistles when he talks. He should be retired for that alone."
Thank GOD I'm the only one who thinks so. How did he ever get the job with that speech impedament?
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