{"id":2230980,"date":"2024-04-26T13:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T17:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-cbs-news-anchor-dan-rather-to-return-to-network-for-interview\/"},"modified":"2024-04-26T13:41:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T17:41:13","slug":"former-cbs-news-anchor-dan-rather-to-return-to-network-for-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-cbs-news-anchor-dan-rather-to-return-to-network-for-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Rather, ex-CBS News anchor, set to make a comeback for an interview on the network"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-cbs-news-anchor-dan-rather-to-return-to-network-for-interview%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2230980&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>Former <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/cbs-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>CBS News<\/a> anchor <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/dan-rather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Dan Rather<\/a> will return to his former workplace for an interview 18 years after he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/2369498\/disgraced-fake-newsman-dan-rather-gets-journalism-awards-named-in-his-honor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"fired\">fired<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, 92, will appear for an interview Sunday ahead of his documentary <em>Rather<\/em>. The film details his journalism career up until his false reports during the 2004 U.S. presidential election that then-President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/George-W-Bush\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>George W. Bush<\/a> had largely been \u201cAWOL\u201d while in the National Guard. Later, it was revealed his sources were forged documents.<\/p>\n<p>CBS fired Rather because of his false reporting. He has denied that his reports were false, and Bush went on to win his second term. In recent years, Rather has become a vocal opponent of Donald Trump on social media.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This documentary was already released at the Tribeca Film Festival but will subsequently debut on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Netflix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Netflix<\/a> on May 1, days after Rather\u2019s CBS appearance.<\/p>\n<p>The Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin announced in 2020 that it was unveiling two journalism awards in Rather\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Rather, the former CBS News anchor, is making a comeback for an interview at the network, 18 years post his dismissal. Aged 92, he will discuss his documentary &#8220;Rather&#8221; and recount his journalism journey, including the controversy surrounding his false reports during the 2004 U.S. presidential election. The interview is scheduled for Sunday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2230981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP21296817504905.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2230980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP21296817504905.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2230980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2230981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2230980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2230980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2230980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}