Deadlines and Datelines: Essays for a New Century
by Dan Rather
Book Summary Information
Author: Dan RatherEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-06-01
ISBN: 0688179053
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Book Reviews of Deadlines and Datelines: Essays for a New Century
Book Review: Tales told on an unfortunate frequency.
Summary: 1 Stars
Mr. Rather's attempt to join fellow anchormen Jennings and Brokaw on the bestseller lists is, to our misfortune, a hastily-assembled and ill-thought project culled from radio scripts and jottings that were obviously spoken into a dictaphone and transcribed and rewritten by a minion. As a newsreader, Mr. Rather shouldn't be expected to deliver wisdom or even original thoughts on his own, but this collection of half-truths, lowbrow insight and he-man posing doesn't even fit comfortably into the CBS orthodoxy promulgated in other ghostwritten volumes by its stars. A homespun ramble about grandma is comfy, an appreciation of Audrey Hepburn is a welcome wrinkle in the Rather crackpot legacy-- but the less-than-forthcoming profile of Charles Kuralt is downright dishonest (knowing what we've learned about the rotund one's twenty five years of adulterous gallavanting through this great land) and a deliberate attempt to recast CBS history. In the words of Capote, this isn't writing, this is typewriting. Not good.
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