Dan Rather Will Go Off Frequency Next February

CBS News announced that Dan Rather will give his last evening news broadcast in March 2005. At 73, Rather has had a long and storied career, which was recently marred by the whole Bush National Guard incident. Rather is 73, which makes soon-to-step-down Tom Brokaw look like a spring chicken at 66. And if you asked Gothamist which newsman would be arrested over a meatloaf, we would have said Dan Rather, not the 86 year-old Mike Wallace. Rather has always been a tough guy - a little nutty, but who wouldn't be, having to carry the torch of Walter Cronkite? Somewhere at ABC, Peter Jennings is doing his happy dance; we expect his broadcast tonight to be extra punchy.

While Gothamist hasn't been watching much Dan Rather lately (we do love David Letterman's montages of various Ratherisms), we are a bit sad. When we were little, we'd watching the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather with our parents, and afterwards, we'd play "pretend anchor" with pages and pages of scribbles. Dan, we'll miss you.

Salon on Dan Rather's appearance on the Late Show after September 11. The Rather watchdog site, Rather Biased. And some Ratherisms.

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By Jen Chung in Arts & Entertainment on November 23, 2004 2:27 PM

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Rather Biased Indeed

Why did the link to the Evolution Control Commitee's "Rocked By Rape" get removed? The whole song is great combination of Dan Rather's odd language quirks and AC/DC's "Back in Black"?

For more info, read her:

http://commoncontent.org/catalog/audio/muaNetwork Time Serversic/161/

The song itself is here:

http://evolution-control.com/sounds/The%20Evolution%20Control%20Committee%20-%20Rocked%20By%20Rape.mp3

dd

He's a biased snob who uses forged documents. I'm glad he's going. It's appropriate that he's resigning just after the forgery scandal. He should be remembered most for bad moves.