Rather Outspoken Lib/E: My Life in the News (Audiobook)

from ForeignCircus

This book by one of the elder statesmen of American journalism is part memoir, part reflection, part ringing condemnation, and all Rather. Opening with the events that led to his ouster from CBS News, Rather then reverts back to his childhood and his early interest in reporting the news, followin...

from muddyboy

Part autobiography, part an indictment of CBS and the news media in general for giving up truly independent news reporting if they think it will not benefit their bottom line. Whet Rather is referencing are a couple events late in his career at CBS. The most profound being the evident which event...

from JBD1

Dan Rather's fourth (by my count) memoir. He opens with chapters on the Abu Ghraib and Bush military service record stories, partly I think because he seems to want to get them out of the way. He tells his side of how all that went down; it's pretty clear to me that he's still uncomfortable with ...

from bookchickdi

Dan Rather has been a news reporter for over 50 years and in all those years he has made a few enemies, from the KKK during the civil rights movement to President Nixon to members of George W. Bush's administration. He covers the reasons why in Rather Outspoken- My Life in the News, co-written wi...

from jonerthon

I think Dan Rather has put at least three memoirs out into the world by now, with plenty of potential to write more in the future. This one does trace his full life and career, but there's heavy focus on the years before and after his dismissal from CBS. While Rather was clearly in the field or t...