REVIEW: A clear-eyed history of the greatest living journalist from Texas.
What defines a great journalist? Is it simply skill and ability? There are plenty of talented journalists who are never called great. Is it being in the right place at the right time? No, because many mediocrities have been in the room for pivotal events. So maybe it's the willingness to be dedicated to truth in those era-defining moments.
In exploring his 70-plus year career, starting as an AP stringer in Huntsville, Texas, and leading to decades as one of the most recognizable TV news anchors,almost buries the lede: That Dan Rather has been around forever, and not only retained his journalistic credibility but enhanced it. The reporter who got gut punched on the floor of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago is the same reporter who, half a century later, is praised by Gen-Z as a master of social media shade.
Implicit in the narrative is that, even when he became a household name, he was still a shoe leather reporter, whether it be softball stories foror heading into Afghanistan to interview the Taliban: And that's what he remains, as his post Memogate career on the ground for HDnet proves. However, it meant he never felt quite satisfied with the idea of being a deskbound anchor like his peers, Tom Brokaw at NBC News and Peter Jennings on ABC.
But those discussions would arguably complicate the real thrust of the film, which is a tick tock of Rather's career, as explained through archive footage, and interviews with his peers, fellow reporters, and with Rather himself. It's also inevitably a portrait of how the right has targeted the media as the enemy of America, and how – as one of the faces of American journalism – they were inevitably going to target the baritone-voiced reporter.
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