WATCH: Disgraced Dan Rather returns to CBS News, 18 years after scandalous departure
(CBS NEWS) -- It's been almost 20 years since Dan Rather signed off from the anchor desk here at CBS News. Of the so-called "Big Three" TV anchormen back in the day, watched by some 50 million people a night, Rather was there the longest, almost a quarter-century. In his 44 years with CBS, Rather…
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Dan Rather in 2024
(CBS NEWS) -- It's been almost 20 years since Dan Rather signed off from the anchor desk here at CBS News. Of the so-called "Big Three" TV anchormen back in the day, watched by some 50 million people a night, Rather was there the longest, almost a quarter-century.
In his 44 years with CBS, Rather held every post a network reporter could: bureau chief, war correspondent, foreign correspondent, White House correspondent.
On @CBSSunday Lee Cowan re-writes @DanRather’s downfall. 92 year old Rather: “News, real news, is what somebody, somewhere, particularly somebody in power, doesn’t want you to know.” Cowan: “And that’s what got him into trouble.” pic.twitter.com/rI0ApHkqKU
— Brent Baker (@BrentHBaker) April 28, 2024
But in 2006, a little more than a year after he stepped down from the anchor desk, Rather left CBS itself. "Dan Rather, CBS News, became sorta all part of my name, a part of my identity," he said.
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