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James Vanderbilt's Truth, the high-profile movie chronicling the scandal that derailed Dan Rather's career, has gotten the greenlight to begin shooting this fall. Brett Ratner's RatPac Entertainment and Echo Lake Entertainment will finance the movie, starring Robert Redford as the iconic news anchor and Cate Blanchett as Mary Mapes, Rather's producer. At the same time, FilmNation has come aboard to represent international rights and will pre-sell the project to foreign buyers at the Toronto Film Festival, which kicks off Thursday night (based on the cast, it's sure to whet appetites). Mythology Entertainment is the driving force behind Truth, which was...

Dan Rather excluded from CBS' anniversary coverage of Kennedy assassination Published: November 5, 2013 1:57 PM By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The 50th-anniversary coverage of the Kennedy assassination on CBS News won't include the recollections of its longtime anchor Dan Rather, further proof of the lingering bitterness following Rather's messy exit and subsequent lawsuit against the network. Rather helped organize CBS' plans for President John F. Kennedy's visit to Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, and as a young reporter was a key component of assassination coverage. Now 82, with his own show on AXS-TV, he's one of the few reporters on...

Dan Rather slammed CBS Tuesday for trying to keep his court fight with the network out of the public eye. The newsman - who has filed a $70 million lawsuit against the Tiffany network, where he anchored the "CBS Evening News" for 24 years - said "corporate overlords" are conspiring to withhold several key documents. The 76-year-old was back in Manhattan Supreme Court for a hearing on his suit, which accuses CBS of sidelining him to make nice with the White House following a September 2004 report that questioned President Bush's Vietnam-era military service. Rather left the anchor's chair in...

When he sets his jeweler’s eye upon the so-called Swift-boating of the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, for instance, future candidates for office get point-by-point instruction on how to turn a campaign liability into an asset: in this case how someone with no combat experience can successfully run on national security issues against someone who was actually shot on the battlefield. Mr. Rich asserts that the Bush camp, “so brilliant at creating fictional stories for their own man,” managed to “create a fictional biography for Kerry” that offset the stories of his heroism as captain of a Swift boat...

<p>"The scandal at CBS involved the use of phony documents to make charges against President Bush regarding his Air National Guard service that were not only unsubstantiated, but contradicted by evidence and information known to CBS at the time."</p> <p>In memory of Reed Irvine, founder of Accuracy in Media, AIM is awarding its first annual Reed Irvine Investigative Journalism award to two of the bloggers responsible for exposing Rathergate—Dan Rather's use of forged documents to smear President Bush. This episode was a milestone in the history of journalism.</p>

October 5, 2005 -- THE producer at the center of last year's "Memogate" scandal at CBS News says she was derailed by a vast right-wing conspiracy. The producer, Mary Mapes, is one of four CBS staffers fired last January in the wake of the scandal. She is convinced she was the victim of a group of loosely associated Internet bloggers "with a harsh political bent" who pounced on CBS News minutes after the airing of the now-infamous Texas Air National Guard story on "60 Minutes 2" in September 2004... "Within a few minutes, I was online visiting Websites I had...

Interesting irony on Larry King last night. First King interviewed Woodward & Bernstein, the two men responsible for breaking one of the biggest stories of the century with the help of an anonymous source we now know was the number two man at the FBI. In the next hour King interviewed Dan Rather, the man responsible (at least in part) for one of the bigger journalistic bungles in the modern era, rushing to air a story based on forged documents from very dubious sources to try and influence the outcome of a presidential election. It's clear that Rather is still...

    Rather to Host His Own Farewell Tribute on CBS Thu Feb 17, 2005 08:31 PM ET By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - No sooner will Dan Rather bid viewers a final good night as anchor of the CBS Evening News than he will be back on the air to lead viewers through a retrospective of his 50 years in broadcast journalism. CBS News said on Thursday that an hourlong special, "Dan Rather: A Reporter Remembers," will be telecast on March 9, at 8 p.m. EST, within an hour of his stepping down as host and managing...

Report just issues, mapes finally fired

A little biride familiar with discussions at CBS News tells me that the network suits will announced Dan Rather's replacement the day they release the report about the faked memos. I guess the aim is to distract from the bad news by creating two headlines instead og just one.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Chris in San Mateo, California, I'm glad you waited. Welcome to the program, sir. CALLER: Rush, you have taught your listeners to look at news stories and current events in general with a critical eye, and I've noticed this evolving within myself over the years. And as I witnessed the CBS story unfold at my favorite blog I realized that that was the pinnacle of these lessons on an individual level, and also throughout your audience and in America, and it's even apparent that the media is influenced by you, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies....

Rather Ambushed at Dallas Airport; Anchor Bashes Fox September 18, 2004 15:34:06 EDT Fox News has reported that Dan Rather received the "60 Minutes treatment" when he was confronted by a local Dallas TV reporter. Rather has flown to Dallas apparently to help his CBS people in Dallas get their stories straight and bolster their defense. More and more media organizations are picking apart Rather's claims, as more is uncovered about the Texas Democrats who seem to have originated the story. The reporter, from the local Fox affiliate, asked Rather if he felt he was duped. Rather shot back, "Do...

Reprinted from NewsMax.com Saturday, Sept. 18, 2004 9:10 p.m. EDTForged Doc 'Source': I Contacted Kerry Campaign AUSTIN - A retired Texas National Guard official mentioned as a possible source for disputed documents about President Bush's service in the Guard said he passed along information to a former senator working with John Kerry's campaign. Also Saturday, a White House official said Bush has reviewed disputed documents that purport to show he refused orders to take a physical examination in 1972 and did not recall having seen them previously. The long-running story on Bush's Texas Air National Guard service took an unusual...

CBS, its media defenders and its fellow accusers of Bush are now employing the leftist logic used by The Nation in 1988 when Tawana Brawley’s charges against Steven Pagones were revealed as a total lie. The Nation ran an editorial in which it argued that even though Brawley’s charges were not actually true, they expressed the essential truth about today’s America (i.e., that America is a country in which white district attorneys kidnap and rape black girls and scrawl racist slogans on their skin and smear them with feces and leave them stuffed in garbage bags), and therefore were still...

Senate Discussing Nat'l Guard Memos C-SPAN2 Now!

(CNSNews.com) - By relying on documents widely believed to be forgeries, CBS has given the nation another good example of the law of unintended consequences rearing its well-recognized head, writes columnist Rich Galen. Instead of damaging the Bush campaign, CBS has successfully knocked the Kerry campaign off its message since last Friday. Forgery By Rich Galen CNSNews.com Commentary from Mullings.com September 15, 2004 * Other than Dan "What's the Frequency, Kenneth" Rather, no one on the planet now believes that the documents proffered by CBS News about Lt. George W. Bush's service in the Air National Guard are legitimate....

A correspondent who normally doesn’t follow the news wrote to me about Rathergate, and I replied: > I got sucked into this Rathergate stuff by the way, because it seemed so weird. I thought Rathergate (which I just began reading up on last night after I got home from a wilderness trip) is truly interesting, but it must really be extraordinary if it even caught your attention. :-) > It’s really my impression that the Democrats have gone insane. Welcome to the club. People have been noting this and been increasingly amazed by it (and in my case appalled by...

Another Hierarchy Bites The DustIf anyone was foolish enough to doubt the power of the blogosphere, then they are on notice to start dismantling that fantasy. CBS, in its venerable 60 Minutes program, had the breathtaking audacity to present some almost-certainly forged documents on the air as part of their endless campaign to drive Bush from the White House. The documents in question purported to be memoranda prepared by Col. Killian, one of George W. Bush's commanding officers in the Air National Guard. The memoranda implied that Bush had deliberately defied a direct order to take his physical exam, and...

Are the Killian Memos a Forgery? The media is buzzing with the possibility that the Killian memos broadcast on 60 Minutes are forgeries. The truth hangs on whether any commonly-used typewriters in the 60's-70's had proportional spacing. If you HAVE a typewriter like that, please type out a replica of Killian's first memo and see if your typewriter matches his.