http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Dan_RatherFind stories, videos, and photos about Dan Rather from CNN.com.en-usCable News Network LP, LLLP.Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:43:22 GMT5http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gifhttp://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Dan_Rather14433Find stories, videos, and photos about Dan Rather from CNN.com.http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20310030,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnnhttp://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20310030,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnnWell liked by colleagues, Joe Halderman had been struggling with personal problemsMon, 05 Oct 2009 12:07:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/29/dan.rather.lawsuit/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/29/dan.rather.lawsuit/index.html#cnnSTCTextA New York appeals court on Tuesday dismissed Dan Rather's $70 million lawsuit against CBS, in which the television news anchor accused his former employer of breach of contract.Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:02:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/08/simpson.sawyer/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/08/simpson.sawyer/index.html#cnnSTCTextDiane Sawyer now joins Katie Couric as anchor of a major network evening newscast, leaving Brian Williams the sole man.Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:16:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/07/connie.chung.condit/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/07/connie.chung.condit/index.html#cnnSTCTextNearly eight years later, Connie Chung still remembers being surprised.Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:04:00 ESThttp://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20180503,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnnhttp://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20180503,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnnDon't mess with Texas – or Jessica Simpson.Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:49:00 ESThttp://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20161164,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnnhttp://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20161164,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnnKatie Couric's ratings are about to go through the roof – for a segment that was never meant to air.Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:22:00 ESThttp://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20153585,00.htmlhttp://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20153585,00.htmlIf laughter is the best medicine, Owen Wilson is well on his way to recovery.Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:04:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/21/rather.lkl/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://edition.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/21/rather.lkl/index.html#cnnSTCTextFormer CBS News anchor Dan Rather says the $70 million lawsuit he filed Wednesday against his former employer is an effort to strike a blow against political and corporate influence that he believes threatens the independence of American journalism.Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:00:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2007/09/19/news/newsmakers/rather.ap/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2007/09/19/news/newsmakers/rather.ap/index.htmDan Rather filed a $70 million lawsuit Wednesday against CBS, alleging that the network made him a "scapegoat" for a discredited story about President Bush's National Guard service.Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:46:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/biz2/0701/gallery.dumbest_2004/index.htmlhttp://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/biz2/0701/gallery.dumbest_2004/index.htmlRemember these dumbest moments? Here are some of the highlights of stupidity in 2004.Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:00:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/07/11/king.danrather/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/07/11/king.danrather/index.htmlDan Rather has reached a deal to host a weekly news program starting this fall on premium high-definition channel HDNet. The show is expected to debut in October.Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:24:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/02/20/8369115/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/02/20/8369115/index.htmLeslie Moonves got a little carried away last year talking about the changes he was mulling for the CBS Evening News after the departure of Dan Rather. "On the one hand we could have a newscast lik... Mon, 20 Feb 2006 05:01:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/12/27/2005.list/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/12/27/2005.list/index.htmlHere are some of the entertainment stories that dominated 2005:Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:03:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/06/03/rather.lkl/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/06/03/rather.lkl/index.htmlFormer CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather, recalling the stinging criticism he and the network received after airing a controversial story on President Bush's National Guard service, admits he was a victim of his "own shortcomings."Fri, 03 Jun 2005 06:10:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/27/hilden.blogging/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/27/hilden.blogging/index.htmlRecently, 80 California bloggers who call themselves the Bear Flag League filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief in an ongoing, high-profile case. Their brief argues that not only Internet news sites, but also bloggers who consider themselves "news gatherers or news reporters," should be treated as journalists under the law.Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:19:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/03/09/dan.rather/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/03/09/dan.rather/index.htmlIt's Dan Rather's last day in a position he was once told he'd never hold.Wed, 09 Mar 2005 22:19:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/07/cnna.cronkite/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/07/cnna.cronkite/index.htmlTwenty-four years after taking over the job from Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather will anchor his final "CBS Evening News" broadcast on Wednesday.Tue, 08 Mar 2005 02:40:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/03/02/eye.ent.cool/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/03/02/eye.ent.cool/index.htmlEach year the Hollywood studios send out a calendar of releases.Wed, 02 Mar 2005 16:34:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2005/02/10/news/fortune500/nbc_wright/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2005/02/10/news/fortune500/nbc_wright/index.htmNBC Universal CEO Robert Wright said Thursday that talk of the impending death of evening news shows on broadcast television have been greatly exaggerated, and criticized rival CBS for thinking about ending the traditional format.Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:47:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/01/11/rather.cbs/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/01/11/rather.cbs/index.htmlVeteran anchorman Dan Rather sent a memo to his CBS News colleagues Tuesday calling for "a renewed dedication to journalism of the highest quality."Wed, 12 Jan 2005 00:28:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/10/cbs.guard/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/10/cbs.guard/index.htmlCBS News has ousted four employees over its "60 Minutes Wednesday" report about President Bush's National Guard service, the network said Monday.Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:12:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/24/naughty.nice/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/24/naughty.nice/index.htmlThis Christmas, many candidates are eligible for either the naughtiest or nicest of 2004.Fri, 24 Dec 2004 18:55:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/12/17/top10.entertainment/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/12/17/top10.entertainment/index.htmlWizards, trivia buffs, millionaires and political players all had prominent parts this past year in the entertainment industry.Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:38:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/11/30/safire/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/11/30/safire/index.htmlThis week, Tom Brokaw leaves NBC's anchor desk. In March, it'll be Dan Rather's turn to depart at CBS.Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:20:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/11/23/rather.leaving/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/11/23/rather.leaving/index.htmlDan Rather announced Tuesday that he'll step down as anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News," 24 years to the day after he assumed the post.Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:33:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/23/rather/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/23/rather/index.htmlLongtime anchor Dan Rather will leave the "CBS Evening News" on March 9, the network said Tuesday, just months after Rather's use of questionable documents in a report critical of President Bush's National Guard service.Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:29:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2004/11/23/news/newsmakers/rather/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2004/11/23/news/newsmakers/rather/index.htmDan Rather will step down as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News on March 9, 2005 after 24 years in the job.Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:16:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/11/03/cautious.calling/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/11/03/cautious.calling/index.htmlIt seems everyone got the memo.Wed, 03 Nov 2004 21:29:00 ESThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/10/04/campaign.comedy/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/10/04/campaign.comedy/index.htmlAn estimated 62.5 million viewers watched the first presidential debate Thursday night.Mon, 04 Oct 2004 20:36:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/23/cbs.documents/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/23/cbs.documents/index.htmlBill Burkett, who gave CBS News the alleged documents about President Bush's National Guard service, insists "the jury is still out" on whether those documents are authentic.Fri, 24 Sep 2004 00:59:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/20/cbs.documents/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/20/cbs.documents/index.htmlCBS News said Monday it cannot vouch for the authenticity of documents that cast doubt on President Bush's Vietnam-era National Guard service, and the White House suggested Democrats might have been involved.Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:23:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/17/fri.hot/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/17/fri.hot/index.htmlCheck out the links below to hot political stories around the country this morning.Fri, 17 Sep 2004 12:37:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/15/guard.memos.congress/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/15/guard.memos.congress/index.htmlThe growing controversy over President Bush's National Guard records, and whether some of the memos aired on CBS were fake, took another turn Wednesday night.Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:01:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/15/bush.guard.memos/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/15/bush.guard.memos/index.htmlThree experts asked by CBS News to examine memos alleging President Bush received special treatment during his service in the Texas Air National Guard told CNN Tuesday they did not authenticate the documents -- and one said the network "ignored" her reservations about them before a "60 Minutes" broadcast last week.Wed, 15 Sep 2004 07:25:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/09/10/rather/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/09/10/rather/index.htmlThis is not the first time Dan Rather has found himself in a serious dispute with a U.S. president.Fri, 10 Sep 2004 20:29:00 EDThttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/20/rather.cancer/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/20/rather.cancer/index.htmlCBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather told his audience Monday night that he recently had several cancerous growths removed from his face, and urged viewers to get examinations for skin cancer.Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:25:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2003/12/01/354213/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2003/12/01/354213/index.htmSince I didn't let the spotlight go to my head on the front end, I don't mind that it's not there now. It was crazy, right from the day--Jan. 14, 2002--when congressional staffers found my memos t...Mon, 01 Dec 2003 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2000/07/01/283715/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2000/07/01/283715/index.htmOne breezy morning last January, Brown Williams, the chairman of Princeton Video Image, walked into his office in Lawrenceville, N.J., picked up his New York Times, and saw his own company name on ...Sat, 01 Jul 2000 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/05/01/278932/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/05/01/278932/index.htmDramatic theme songs have opened national network news broadcasts for years. To viewers they're as familiar as Walter Cronkite's face and as powerful as Tom Brokaw's hair spray. But where did they ...Mon, 01 May 2000 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/09/21/76866/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/09/21/76866/index.htmWe began talking back to Privacy for Sale: How Computerization Has Made Everyone's Life an Open Secret somewhere around the sixth word of the subtitle and basically never stopped. The author, Busin...Mon, 21 Sep 1992 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/09/21/76862/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/09/21/76862/index.htmThe U.S. Senate's failure to pass a defense authorization bill in August is widely and properly viewed as a policy disaster. On the brighter side, the debate leading up to the disaster makes great ...Mon, 21 Sep 1992 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/09/21/76864/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/09/21/76864/index.htmAnthony Jones has a problem. The Chicagoan sued the state in January for not letting him wear a training bra, panties, and mascara in his cell at the maximum-security Pontiac Correctional Center, w...Mon, 21 Sep 1992 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/09/21/76865/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/09/21/76865/index.htmThe op-ed pages are chockablock with chatter about tax proposals, but hardly anybody has noticed that one new proposal is already moving forward. While others talk, Steny Hoyer acts. What, you neve...Mon, 21 Sep 1992 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/09/21/76863/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/09/21/76863/index.htmLOS ANGELES -- You've probably heard the one about the dumb blonde . . . But what about the man? Any man. Men are the latest targets for jokesters these days, under the heading ''dumb men jokes.'' ...Mon, 21 Sep 1992 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/11/05/74285/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/11/05/74285/index.htmHerewith two modest thoughts about the famous ''bubble'' in the U.S. tax code. As we key in these words, the bubble is in trouble. Hundreds of Congresspersons yearn to lance it, professedly because...Mon, 05 Nov 1990 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/04/25/70450/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/04/25/70450/index.htmHey, what ever happened to Tom Brokaw? How can the arguably most handsome of the network anchorpersons suddenly be in a ''ratings swoon'' (the New York Times's succinct summary)? What would cause T...Mon, 25 Apr 1988 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/08/17/69413/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/08/17/69413/index.htmIt was abundantly clear at the three-second mark that CBS News was going to give no quarter to Dr. Milton Avol. For those who missed this 108-second morality play the other evening, Avol was ''the ...Mon, 17 Aug 1987 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/08/03/69392/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/08/03/69392/index.htmPoor Larry Tisch. First his CBS management team got bad-mouthed by Dan Rather and others in the news division for closing bureaus, firing employees, and slicing $30 million from the $300-million ne...Mon, 03 Aug 1987 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/01/05/68540/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/01/05/68540/index.htmAfter giving up on handsome Dan Rather because CBS News is ''such a sucker for squishy-soft liberal formulations'' and furthermore is ''dumb'' (see our October 27 groan for some examples), the next...Mon, 05 Jan 1987 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/10/27/68191/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/10/27/68191/index.htmWe see by the papers that New Proprietor Larry Tisch is determined to preserve the integrity of CBS News and would definitely not allow bottom lineism to become a factor in deciding what the newsme...Mon, 27 Oct 1986 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/02/04/65508/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/02/04/65508/index.htmEasily the dumbest question raised on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather during the holiday season just ended was the one proposed by Indiana housewife Elinor Vaprin and presented to the viewing ...Mon, 04 Feb 1985 05:01:00 EST