This... Is Dan Rather's Rallying Cry

CBS Evening News scandal flick opens this weekend in the U.K.

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With the Cate BlanchettRobert Redford movie Truth set to arrive in U.K. theaters this weekend, The Guardian has published an interview of Dan Rather by Joe Queenan. It’s pretty clear from the following two paragraphs on which side of the mid-2000s CBS dividing line the article author stands:

In an unforgiving, what-have-you-done-for-me-lately society, Rather’s name is automatically linked with one disastrous broadcast, not with his decades of exemplary work as a journalist. He wishes Truth had depicted the higher-ups at CBS openly rooting against the news team because of their allegiance to the Bush administration.

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