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Dan Rather
6 quotes
“Good evening. President Reagan, still training his spotlight on the economy, today signed a package of budget cuts that he will send to Congress tomorrow. Lesley Stahl has the story.”
Dan Rather (born 1931) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rather's first lines in his debut as anchor of The CBS Evening News, Monday, March 9, 1981.
“He invented the job, the job of anchoring, did it himself for 40 years, and taught two generations of anchormen, including this one, how to do it. He's retiring, but he'll be with us in spirit, and he'll be a part of every broadcast we do.”
Dan Rather (born 1931) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Douglas Edwards' retirement (1988)
“[My job is] a very high trapeze act, frequently with no net.”
Dan Rather (born 1931) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in The New Yorker, March 7, 2005.
“To use tragedy to sow division is the hallmark of a despot.”
Dan Rather (born 1931) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rather's Facebook page, 6 February 2018
“There was a time in South Africa that people would put flaming tires around people’s necks if they dissented. And in some ways the fear is that you will be ‘necklaced’ here, you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck. Now it is that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions...I do not except myself from this criticism...What we are talking about here—whether one wants to recognize it or not, or call it by its proper name or not—is a form of self-censorship. I worry that patriotism run amok will trample the very values that the country seeks to defend.”
Dan Rather (born 1931) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Norman Solomon in Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You, p. 23 (2003)
“Those who dumb down the news, trivialize the news with in-studio shouting matches passing for debate, those who tart up the news with celebrity gossip, scandal and sensationalism are playing right into the hands of those that stand to gain the most from the news being seen as irrelevant and trivial and no more or less worth your attention than the next episode of 'American Idol.' [...] I worry that if it becomes no more than a reality show, something that could be scripted and rigged behind the scenes without anyone really getting upset about it, that our freedom of the press will become another one of those constitutionally granted rights that can be watered down and eventually taken away from us.”
Dan Rather (born 1931) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech 3 February 2011 at San Antonio College, as quoted in Jeanne Jakle, "Rather warns media is in 'state of crisis'", San Antonio Express-News, 4 February 2011.