Important to read this and realize what a partisan propagandist Rather was. The open-minded reader will also learn what a racist he was, part of his partisanship. He is a dogged liar, still swearing, after all these years, that his dishonest reporting of George W. Bush's military record -- obviously a forgery to every rational person -- was true.
Earlier, when the hapless Nixon was president and wanting to give a speech demonstrating what a man he was, Nixon chose to not be sitting behind a desk, but standing.
He had one of the White House employees, a butler, I believe, standing just off camera holding a tray with a pitcher of water and a glass.
No one else thought anything of it, but next day, racist Rather brought up the butler's skin color!
Vicious partisanship in the "news" media is not new. Rather was a rather spectacular practitioner, but by no means the first or the last.. ( )

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2214 The Camera Never Blinks: Adventures of a TV Journalist, by Dan Rather with Mickey Herskowitz (read 9 Jun 1989) This is a 1977 book, which I should have read 12 years ago but it is still good. It tells of Rather's time, starting in radio in Texas and ending in a top spot at CBS, with a lot of time telling of his eight years as White House correspondent for CBS in the Johnson and Nixon years. ( )

I'm reading this for the second time in 2007. I probably read it the first time in the 1980s. It's good because it gives the inside story of the news business. And of course Dan Rather resigned or was fired from CBS in disgrace for the false documents about President George Bush and the National Guard, last year 2006, I think. And, it's even more interesting because this week, September 20, 2007 we find out that Dan Rather is suing his former employers for $70 million for making him the scapegoat over the fake document scandal. Great timing for my second reading of this book! It's good the second time around too. ( )