FROM: http://truthmissile.blogspot.com/
Dan Rather's Last Day As CBS Anchor
Just watched the Rather retrospective on CBS....
Dan Rather was at every great news event in the past 40 years - JFK Assasination, The Civil Rights Movement, Watergate, Iran-Contra, Lewinsky, 9/11, etc - and one of the two final lines that struck me were:
"When they don't let a Reporter in, they're not letting YOU, the Citizen in..."
"I just want to be remembered as a great reporter."
There is something magical and inspiring about a man who has such dedication to a field. I know a News Producer in his 70s (same age as Rather), that has the same passion and curiosity for News that he probably had when he first started in his 20s. He just wants to get to the location, break down the door, and tell you what just happened and why it's important.
In this period, which "mark my words" will be seen as bubble in the field of journalism - when reporters and news agencies were afraid to speak truth to power - we can think about what we will do when it's all over. And one of the men we will look to is Dan Rather.
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