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Intro: Next Wednesday, Dan Rather will anchor the "CBS Evening News" for the last time -- 24 years to the day after he succeeded Walter Cronkite. Media commentator Paul Janensch says Rather's high-profile career has had many ups and downs.
Outro: Media commentator Paul Janensch is a former newspaper editor who teaches journalism at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. His commentaries are a production of WNPR - Connecticut Public Radio.
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Intro: Next Wednesday, Dan Rather will anchor the "CBS Evening News" for the last time -- 24 years to the day after he succeeded Walter Cronkite. Media commentator Paul Janensch says Rather's high-profile career has had many ups and downs. Outro: Media commentator Paul Janensch is a former newspaper editor who teaches journalism at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. His commentaries are a production of WNPR - Connecticut Public Radio.
Broadcast History
Aired WNPR Thursday March 3, 2005.
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I think it's unfortunate that this proud, capable news professional is leaving the CBS Evening News anchor desk on a down. Rather considers himself first and foremost a reporter and will return to "60 Minutes" as a correspondent. Now 73, , Rather apparently had hoped to round out 25 years as the evening anchor. But then -- as he might phrase it -- he put his brand on that report about President Bush's National Guard service. It turned out to be based on phony documents. Rather apologized on the air and then announced his retirement from the Evening News. His conservative critics were overjoyed. For a long time they have denounced him as a symbol of the "liberal media elite" -- which is interesting when you consider that he is the son of a Texas ditch-digger and a graduate of Sam Houston State University. They were angry at him for being disrespectful to President Richard Nixon at...
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