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DAN RATHER TO COVER ELECTIONS -- ON COMEDY CENTRAL Tuesday, November 7 2006 
Dan
Rather
will
apparently
be
playing
straightman
to
the
likes
of
Jon
Stewart
and
Stephen
Colbert
on
Comedy
Central's
election-night
special
tonight
(Tuesday).
"I'm
told
I
will
be
expected
to
'play
it
straight,'
and
then
they'll
bounce
off
it.
We'll
see,"
Rather
told
today's
Philadelphia
Inquirer.
The
former
CBS
Evening
News
anchor,
admitting
that
his
appearance
is
a
professional
"risk,"
is
clearly
anxious
to
return
to
the
kind
of
live
reporting
that
he
was
forced
(more)RATHER READY TO RETURN TO BROADCASTING Friday, September 29 2006 Dan Rather says that his upcoming Dan Rather Reports for Mark Cuban's HDNet cable network is "going full throttle." In an interview with New York Daily News columnist Lloyd Grove, Rather said, "Cuban has given me absolute and complete editorial control. ... Cuban told me, 'I want you to have whatever you need for a quality program,' and he's been as good as his word, and in many instances better than his word." His first (more) |
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Dan Rather says he intends to focus on investigative reporting as he launches Dan Rather Reports on Mark Cuban's HDNet tonight (Tuesday). In an interview with the Baltimore Sun, Rather said that such reporting "has gone badly out of style" because of the cost, time, and controversy -- "and these huge international entities that now control about 85 percent of American media are controversy-averse." Not so the entrepreneurial maverick Cuban (owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team), who, Rather observed, owns the whole company. "He's not answerable to anybody but himself. ... He's smart, and he's got guts." He said that when he left CBS he wanted to tie up with "the 21st Century equivalent of [former CBS Chairman] Bill Paley or [CNN founder] Ted Turner ...some titan of business who felt that business had to have a public-service component." (In an interview with the Dallas Morning News ABC News anchor Charles Gibson said, "I take umbrage with Dan about this. ... I can honestly say ... I've never seen an instance when there was corporate pressure that influenced a story we were covering.")
