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It is based on American television news producer Mary Mapes's memoir Truth and Duty: The Press, the President and the Privilege of Power. The film focuses on the Killian documents controversy and the resulting last days of news anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes at CBS News. It stars Cate Blanchett as Mapes and Robert Redford as Rather.
The story of the controversy was dramatized in the 2015 film Truth starring Robert Redford as Dan Rather and Cate Blanchett as Mary Mapes, directed by James Vanderbilt. It is based on Mapes' memoir Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power.
In 1989, Mapes went to work for CBS News in Dallas, Texas.She was hired by CBS in 1999 as a producer assigned to Dan Rather and the program 60 Minutes Wednesday. [2] [5]At 60 Minutes Wednesday, Mapes produced the story that announced the US military's investigation of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, and the story that exposed Strom Thurmond's unacknowledged bi-racial daughter, Essie Mae ...
For 24 years, Dan Rather served as anchor of the "CBS Evening News," but in the new documentary "Rather," he seems more comfortable as an investigative or foreign reporter.
Netflix has set “Rather,” the documentary about veteran journalist Dan Rather’s landmark career in news for an May 1 April 24 premiere on the streamer. (The date has now been changed to ...
Dan Rather isn’t often rendered speechless. The TV news icon is always quick with a quip or a turn of phrase. There’s even a word for them: “Ratherisms.” Anyone who ever watched the anchor ...
Daniel Irvin Rather Jr. (/ ˈ r æ ð ər /; born October 31, 1931) is an American journalist, commentator, and former national evening news anchor.He began his career in Texas, becoming a national name after his reporting saved thousands of lives during Hurricane Carla in September 1961.
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